Personal Time Map

Life timeline 

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Initial chronological timeline and ideas:

Refined Chronological timeline:

11/22/2000, born 

02/22/01, my Mom died from cancer

2002, start school at Hordle Walhampton

08/26/2009, my first time in NYC

2012, start/leave KES, first proper experience with severe mental health problems 

6/15/13, first Eminor show, first time singing in pubic

July 2013,  start riding at Homestead

8/31/13, first canter on Rio

2013, start at HCS

2/08/2015, I get a call that Grandma Jean has just died.

4/28/2015, First time ever riding JJ

12/27/2016, Skiing with Dad

July, NYC trip, visit the MET Rei Kawakubo show

9/11/2017, September, start studying at Barton Peveril Sixth Form

9/21/2017, Meet Harri

3/02/18, officially diagnosed with severe anxiety

4/22/18, last time I spoke to Great Grandad

6/04/2018, Grandad died.

June 2018, Parsons summer intensive, living alone

10/14/2018, I got into Parsons

June 2019 traveling on my own

8/15/2019 A level results + move to NYC.

8/24/2019, first day at Parsons

8/28/2019 Thanksgiving alone and homesick

The beginning of each season marks the end of the last.

The seasons are always changing. They represent the idea of new beginnings and transformation.

Some trees die in winter

But some are evergreen, they withstand hard times and stand tall.

I think that’s a lot like life and memory

I wanted to use color and shape to try and represent my most prominent memories. I condensed my initial time map down so that I had a more simplified list of events, I chose a range of events (both happy and sad/ big and smaller) but events which I feel have shaped me the most as a person.

Below: Events per year of life organized with seasonal occurrence + color-coded for emotion

I think seasons are a good way of showing time because they, like life, keep changing. 

I was inspired by one of my classmate’s presentations from the previous week which featured her dividing up her timeline into the years of her life alongside also arranging the events by her emotions. This inspired me to think about my life in a similar way since I’m so interested in organic structure and form it lead me to direct my train of thought to tree rings (the way the tree rings can be used to measure time) and then seasons. 

I’m interested in cyclical patterns and structure within time and how it can be represented without being so specific and analytical. 

I’ve added various patterns across the image (in a style that I tend to use in my personal work) as an aesthetic addition because I want this piece to represent me in a way that aligns with my style as an artist. These patterns, however, are not random and I have placed them across the composition to correspond with the events featured in the time map, for example, a big event that saw me confronted with change and emotion is surrounded by an array of different patterns and an event which is milder is left barer.