Life passing by
How we experience time is is not universal: it is lived, sensed, and shaped by movement, memory, and repetition. We never all experience the same “now”.
Position:
Erbil, Iraq; Beirut, Lebanon;
Xinaliq, Azerbaijan
Date:
2022-2024
2025
Residues of time
One second long fragments of lives not mine
Time is not an universal concept: it is lived, sensed and shaped by movement, memory and repetition.
We never all experience the same “now”.
– Inside the vehicle is the space of passage, my own movement
– outside the vehicle unfolds the uninterrupted life of others
The harbor cranes moving through their choreography of labour.
Families setting up a picnic table under a tree on a Friday morning, their first weekend day.
A taxi driver waiting for the green light outside of my window. It´s his 7th hour of work and not the first time he is stopping at this very traffic light.
These moments appear to me already fragmentary, in their own logical sequence, forming the bigger mosaic of my journey.
As time is not a neutral container, we are never all in the same time, even if we occupy the same space.
Summarized: time lived vs. time seen.
I´m already elsewhere.
They are still there. It is still there.
