Time
"Time", hand-made oil colour on paper 140 gr., 35 x 50 cm. each, 2020
"12.775 days", tryptich, oil colour, oil paint on paper scroll, 150x180 approx. each, 2017
My interest for the notion of time began with my need to comprehend its actual being, its substance, via my personal, individual time, as the one experienced by me and solely familiar to me.
Contrary to the numeric, analog- or digital- form of counting time, a well-known and familiar form invented by mankind to calculate and measure the notion of time and its passing, I chose a non-numeric one, where time was accounted in the simplest form of line marking.
Attempts where a seaseless line framed my own body for thirty five concecutive times were made in order to give a two dimentional shape to what time had already formed in three dimentions.
Emerged from the idea of time being relevant to space, the intention was to shape the outcome of time, through the notation of the the outline of bodily movements.
Thirty five outlines were paralleled to 35 years.
The oblect was my own body.
35 lines, pencil, charcoal on paper, 2016.
This idea gave birth to the creation of large scaled canvas paintings and paper drawings, in collaboration with Catlos Sebastia and Marie Gerand. Shapes, shadows and outlines were imprinted on canvas and paper in order to capture the present, in a fluid, non-representative way.
Materials of use varied from crayons, pencil, colour pencil, graphit, charcoal, oil paint, water colour, liquid coffee, architerctural ink pen.
However, the need to measure a specific amount of time and the desire to shape and form this abstract sense -familiar and unknown to every being - into a substance, resulted in a ceaseless linear marking of small vertical dashes. The designed number of marks would sum up to the number of 12.775, on paper with graphitt and pencil.
Perpendicular marks were placed repeatedly, one after the other in a row, a ritual that could be paralleled to the imprisoned’s marking of daily countdown.
The aim was to reach my personal numerical time: 12.775 days, which add up to 35 years (of life), until the day of the works conception.
Pencil, graphitt on paper, 50x70 cm each.
The initial materials were 8B, 6B pescil and graphit on paper. Multiple trials were done in an intention to capture the size, the kind, the marking, the intensity of the embossed line to diferrent sized papers.
Throughout this notation, the act of retaining the same and identical form of marking stood almost impossible.
My mind attributed this internal need of differentiation to the actual discrimination of each passing moment and day .
Each marked note referred to “daily time”.
Left:
8B Pencil, graphit on notebook, 21x29cm
The experiences gained from each passing minute, are those that shape our personalities, beliefs and values. Thus, the linear dashed representation of each day, would and could not be identical to the previous one.
The latter marks, which individually imply one single day, were and are enriched with past acquired knowledgeFuture and Present are enhanced from the Past; hereby, not only metaphorically but literally as well.
The linear consecutive and continuous marks seek a way of transforming themselves onto the paper.
The size longs for a change, a transformation.
Would that be a change of perspective?
Would that be a change in depicting?
Would that be another change, as in colour, shape, form and dimension?
Since our past co-exists with our present, as time is a sequence and not independent, forms became gradually bigger.
Looser.
More flexible and less stiff, the dripping colour is creeping into the crevice of shapes, making time to appear more fluid than before.
"12.775 days", 01 of the tryptich,
Oil colour on paper,
dim. 150x180 cm approx., 2017
"12.775 days", No_3 of the tryptich,
Oil paint on paper,dim. 150x200 cm approx., 2017
