Thursday, January 17, 2008
what is time?
Time studio is a class in which we artistically measure an elapse of time. But when you think about it... what is time? How do you measure something that is different to everyone and basically undefinable?
You could begin by traveling the typical route and defining time with seconds, minutes, and hours. You could then go on to days, weeks, months, years, decades, and centuries. But is that really what time is? Is it a date on a calendar... or a location of the Earth in orbit? Or is time something simpler? Or more complex?
Do you measure time with a watch? A cell phone clock, a sundial, an hourglass perhaps? Or do you measure it with the number of cups of coffee you've drank so far? Do you measure it with the number of classes you've attended or the number of diapers your child has been through? Is time measured by the number of books on your bookshelf or by the number of movies you've watched? Could time be measured by the number of times you walked your child to the bus stop? Or is it the number of miles on your car? Is time measured by the amount of boyfriends you've had or by the number of photos you have on your hard drive? Is time measured with concrete details of your life... or is time measured by something as simple as looking into the eyes of a loved one... and recalling the millions of memories you share with them?
What is time? It's up to you.
PS- props to this guy for the image
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