The movement of time and its effect on everyday things can be best observed in an environment where hundreds of events are happening simultaneously, such as the city. By taking pictures from various stances consistently every 10 seconds for 5 minutes each position, I noticed how the perception of time changes from scene to scene, and from object to object. While taking zoomed-out photographs of a busy street (6th ave between Washington and Waverly Pl. in particular), I saw that a lot of movement and the occurrence of many instances at one time and space gives the perception that time is extremely fleeting. As soon as the next photograph is taken after 10 seconds, so much already changes from the last photograph: the people, the position of things, etc. But while many things may change, some things just seem to stay static. When zooming into these almost static objects, such as plants, it seems as though time is at a standstill. Although in the zoomed-out images the subject was the street, the objects within the street created a story though the composition of all the different impressions they gave of time. Thusly, the zoomed in images simply show a closer look at just one of those small aspects of the street to reveal more about the effects of time that particular subject. The compilation of the 5 min, 10 second interval pictures of different subjects (zoomed in and zoomed out) can all be viewed in these following images:

After compiling all the consecutive images of each scene, it was time to make a composition of the pictures in each scene of the block to give an overall or particular description of the block. In the draft, I mostly used color grouping to relay a how despite the constant movement of time and the changes that come with it, one thing that seems to stay constant is color; and many times color is one method of how we categorize memories (color is linked with memories). In the final “block grid”, I again used color but reduced it to the two main colors that remind me of the street: light blue, dark blue, and red. The text in the center of the grid is the main indicator of that block because the billboard from which its taken sizes up to almost a third of the space. Also, it is the one thing that remains constant, despite the continuous movement of people along the street.

Finally, I created a linear reading of the block to document how layout can also change how time reads. As opposed to the grid, where everything is happening everywhere at once, the linear reading shows one portion of the block. I created an almost panoramic view by combining images from two different scenes that I photographed. I focused on incorporating the colors red and blue and showing how time can still appear differently no matter the distance from one space to another. By extending the length of the van, I showed how time seems to drag by when waiting on the stop light, whereas the combination of the black and red car depict the sudden change of subject that can happen at the blink of an eye once the cars begin to move. For the final linear composition, I chose to revolve around the theme that being and living amidst all the chaos going on, rather than observing, no one seems to notice the things surrounding them. Everyone is always so much in their own world, in their own thoughts, in their own agendas, that the things around them just swift right by them and past their “point of view”. I put a lot of attention towards the center of the page to emulate a person’s vision when in a situation like this. Towards the sides, I added fade to show how everything to the side of your focus “brushes past you” as it fades into your peripheral vision and eventually into nothingness.