"One of the most tenacious conceptual threats to work, and to Captain Clock’s Hegemonic Time, is childhood itself. Children have a dogged, delicious disrespect for work-time, punctuality, efficiency and for schooled uniform time. Their time is an eternal-present." -Jay Griffiths, Sideways Look at Time

"Consumer societies are stealing children away from their kith, their family of nature, in a steady alienation. This is not about some luxury, a hobby, a bit of playtime in the garden." - A Country Called Childhood by Jay Griffiths

As children, time was unstructured in our perspective. How could we bring that back? That feeling of freeing "eternal-present" and innocence?

As children, what were time tellers for us? Light and darkness, seasons, mealtimes, school, play, and being at home. But what about during summer with no school?

I want to focus on the sun, moon, and seasons/weather and integrate sound. I eventually want to give this as a gift to my god son and daughter and want it to be put in the playroom or babyroom, so the main aesthetic would be child-like and friendly and cute.

Exploring further my first sketch of tree rings as a teller of time.

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With every ring, every year is reminisced, indicating time is unique individual experiences and memories. Instead of trees 'counting down' to death, it counts up. Dendrochronology, or growth rings, is a scientific method of telling the age and history of a tree to the exact year they were formed.

Inspired by surrealist Salvador Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” and Carlo Rovelli’s passage in “Order of Time” about how the world is made of events, not things, the relation between time and patterns of nature is explored through this reflective, meditative experience that is unique to each individual.

I wanted to explore my personal experience of time within the consumption of psychedelics. It is a universal experience of percepting time extremely slowly although the mind at a regular pace, known as time dilation. Why is that so?

Time feels boundless and insular simultaneously. I feel like I have lived only 1 second and 20 lifetimes at the same time. Along with other factors making me feel this way - temporal distortion is a fundamental linked to our thinking during this experience. I am very lucky after each of my "trips" it is a reminder of gratefulness of the present with this time of 'self'.

Time dilation is the difference in the elapsed time as measured by TWO clocks, which in these case, is our perception and measured time. This idea touches the theory of relativity.

When we say "time is slowing down", it is because we are comparing it to our 'measured' subjective everyday clock. What if we are constantly living at faster momentum? What if we lived in the 'inbetween' of those two clocks. Rovelli's Order of Time explores the fluctuation and indeterminancy within time and how the past - present - future is blurred.

I created a camera effect on TouchDesigner illustrating the time between times. With a delayed effect I explore the idea of slowed down time compared to actual. Currently I use a webcam to show this effect but maybe can dive more into this with other imagery.

Feelings of liminality has been strongly resonant to myself through my life. In terms of race, religion, gender identity, traveling, and of course life. We are in a liminal space or "in-between" constantly in some sort of aspect. The feeling of a 'beginning' and a 'destination' is immediately diminished as we are transitioning.

In Rovelli's Order of Time, time is the measure of change: if nothing changes, there is no time. Liminal space expresses the process of individual’s isolation from ordered chronological system and integration onto alternative one. I wanted to explore with this sketch a common form of a liminal space/time, commuting. Although we are still, something around us is moving.

Videos of transportation in some form. Living in a town 1.5-2 hours from the city, and having to commute daily before moving - I felt almost home in a liminal space. Everyday I rode in a 25 minute car ride and got dropped to an hour long ferry. To only walk for 15 minutes to a 15 minute train to campus. These liminal spaces and times were places for me, the opposite of what liminal means. Is my time perception different in these spaces?

I have recently in the last year quit birth control after taking it for 10 years due to hormonal changes causing depression (ages 15-25). The initial reasoning to taking it was my irregular periods that led to me being extremely anemic. In this state was painful. My perception of time felt strung out. Taking birth control pills was a form of a clock for me, it was stability. Every time I wanted to quit - I would go back in this floating state. My body almost depended on it's regularity. Not only did I have to take it everyday, I had to take it everyday at the same time.

Throughout the ages, people have associated the moon with fertility and female energy, relating the menstrual and lunar cycle as they follow the same timeline.

I explored an idea of having a lunar cycle clock that also has a predicted menstrual cycle predicted by an accompany period tracker app.

Now being off birth control for about a year, my period is still irregular and does not link with the lunar cycle. Is my perception of time skewed because of this?

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” -Marcus Aurelius

Death will always be ahead of us. Not necessarily looking forward to death, but seeing it changes how we act, see, feel daily. Memento Mori can be seen as remembering death so that an individual can live the best life, living presently.

Literally, time to us is numbers, which is seen as "hard". But when someone asks us what happened during that 'time', we recall time as memories, sounds, people, eras, events, etc., relative experiences are seen as "soft". This is based off surrealist Salvador Dali's painting "Persistence of Memory".

Living in Washington state, time is so slow and learning how to take the timing and enjoy every single millisecond of it is just as rewarding. I am inspired by growing up around the forests and the growth of trees and nature as an indicator of time. Instead of trees 'counting down' to death, it counts up.

I drafted a mirror clock that spirals out in a meditative manner. Every ring, I hope the individual looking at the mirror reminisces one year and the next ring, the next year. Indicating time are unique individual subject experiences and memories.