research ideas

Can time be ignored when analysing space?

Maybe..

THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO CONTEMPLATE A SPACE IS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO FORMULATE IDEAS ABOUT IT. AS FAST A THINKER AS YOU MAY BE, YOU STILL NEED TIME TO THINK.

But regardless of what we may think about, within or with respect to a space, it continues to exist, without us. We will one day die, yet the spaces we once inhabited will continue to exist. We will re-constitute into another form physically, our consciousness will go wherever it goes, cease to exist, or dissipate into the wind, regardless, the spaces we create whilst living will continue and they will have a profound effect on how the future will look onto the past. The depth with which the present views the past varies according to the history of the space, place, object or situation. We are at best superficially re-experiencing what has already occurred in substance solely in form and never really knowing the essence of any true space, location, occurrence or thing. At worst, we don't even notice the spaces we inhabit.


3dimensional space- can be contemplated without a notion of time. Yet in doing so we are accepting a stoic distortion of what a place seems in time. A photograph depicts three dimensions of space yet its spacial dynamism rests on the very time it was taken and how humans perceive that time and how it relates to the present moment. This contradiction is where the fascination with photography begins. There is a horizontal and vertical axis, and depth. It is space, humans need time to consider it... Space is not a static phenomena. It is always moving in some way shape or form, space on earth is always spinning at the speed the earth spins then rotates around the sun... Yet the still image somehow lets us pretend that for an instant we are able to stop time. We stop the sun, the earth and the stars and we contemplate a frame... whether at 1/1000th of a second or 1/3- we are looking at the past.

there exists a seeming atemporality in certain spaces, a void of consciousness, where we are awe struck by the beauty in scale, dimension depth tonality and even the possibility of certain objects when time stops. Yet time never stops, we print time stopping, maybe to indulge in the possibility of stopping time in order to live longer lives.

The universe, although seemingly static, is alive with electro magnetic movement,

in a void- there is no air - there is space, there is space of the universe, does it move as the earth moves, yes, but it is seemingly still because of gravity and our perception of the way the universe is organised and ordered...we view it through time lapse and its rhythms and pulses are made apparent... we are part of a breathing thing, one we cannot control, but which controls us. Some of us defy this and begin to try to control everything, for whatever reason, maybe to get back at over controlling parents, but no person will ever control everything. Maybe it is too controlling, it is a monolith that needs to be fought, it has replaced nature, and now we are part of the control?