1/27/2024 0 Comments Mt timemaker![]() However, several iconic elements re-occurred when people drew time… people, clouds, spirals, arrows, trees/bushes, circles. A familiar image from the 20th century but drawn by a high school student.Īs we analyzed these time-drawings we realized that there were an extraordinary number of ways in which people thought about time. The Angel being dragged into the uncertain future while grasping for the past. But even within a minute one is conscious and unconscious of the passage of time, each second here represented as a card. This and the reincarnation example are the only examples of time after death. However, the body dies and jokily goes to a shopping mall (heaven). So time again is both linear and cyclical. They are not programmers.Ī woman goes through her lifecycle, then a conditional statement ‘Repeat for children’. People often see night and day as being important. The moon here appears to govern the spiral tides. In this case they emerge from a swamp of time past, as if the personality gave birth to itself. olds to purchase items in a hierarchical site (amazon, or buy.com), then ask the same task of computer literate 60 year olds – both will tell you that it took them about 4 minutes, even though the 20 yr. For a child, a day is about 30 hours, in old age a day rushes past in an hour and a half.There is some experimental evidence for this. Time for a child is eternal compared to time for an elderly person, for whom time flies past. In this case the cycle of a week is independent. Many people are forced to draw time in different ways/scales. Then the future is conceived as a fuse, the future as potential, also an explosion is implied (death?). First the parable of the seed, where seeds scattered in the past sometimes grow into trees. In this case the marsh also slows a person down, doesn’t allow for high speed access. In a sense this is like being inside the stomach, both the future and the past are inconceivable. Is it linear or circular? Biological? Spiritual time? It was astonishing to see time expressed through incarnation. This is a conception of time that people often tell me they understand, but which leaves me totally confused. These drawings were put on a wall and she then had to keep to this schedule. ![]() When she was 6 years old this Korean woman had to draw a pie-chart that represented her day at school. Often parcels of time are indicated, that tend to change in size according to their location.Īnother more literal version of a stomach combined with an hourglass. Somehow the body negotiates its way through this soft, cave-like interior. Time as a stomach! Often the stomach is drawn with a head and anus. Finally we had a sample set of about 80 drawings of subjective experiences of time. We also asked our commissioners in Korea to do the same. These sessions were organized in groups including family and friends in New York and students at Parsons and Amhurst. We asked people from various backgrounds to draw their perception of time. It is a Clock Gallery where one can take a look at other people’s interpretations of time. We decided to do a piece that looks at how people imagine and navigate through time.TimeMaker, a commission by Art Center Nabi, is a place where individuals can express their subjective thoughts and experiences about the abstract theme of time. For instance, I imagine time as a rug that I am making, close by its all strands and colors but from a distance the rug forms into patterns. It turned out that everyone had mental images of time, but they were all different. ![]() Once at a family reunion we were talking about time.
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