Directions: For the first project, consider a set period of time within your day – it could be an activity, a ritual or a naturally occurring duration (e.g. sunrise to sunset) or a metered period of time that you’ve even chosen arbitrarily. Create a single two-dimensional visualization of this temporal experience as you perceive it. In this visualization, consider how your own internal sense of time can be measured, mapped, represented, and/or recorded in a manner that reflects your own area of interest and practice via a single-frame composition.
Reflection: I sat hunched over my MacBook, iPad, and a Texas-Institute calculator. I was confidently taking a quiz for my class until I looked at the countdown clock on the page’s top right side. Suddenly pressure and stress became my dominant emotions, and I thought, why is time allowed to dictate my emotions. In terms of the project, I became less interested in the moment of taking the quiz and more intrigued by the ideas and questions that spurred out of the event. Why do we try to contain and define time? There is irony in how we evolve our lives around something that we don’t understand. Time laughs at us as we try to define and constrain it because the opposite occurs. Time is truly in control and is mocking us.