β-Volantis
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Nothing in the manifest universe is permanent. It is merely that some things are more temporary than others. Nothing in life is still or frozen. Life is defined by movement itself.
It is incorrect to assume a photograph "freezes" a moment in time. Indeed, we often describe a photograph as a "still life". But nothing in life is truly still. It is more accurate to describe a photograph as a drastic slowing down-- imperceptibly even-- but never an utter stillness. Even as we are not perhaps aware, the atoms in that photograph, whether analog or digital, are dancing about and that fantastic dancing will continue right through until various modes of decay or the total universal death known as thermodynamic equilibrium silences it forever.
The frantic tides and currents of the internet realm move at a polarizing contrast to this slowing down of a single captured moment in time. A photo allows one to linger over a bygone moment, patiently, leisurely and with an attitude potentially unrushed by the clock on the wall. The internet world has only seemingly embraced the photo. In reality it is fundamentally at odds with the soul of a photo in this specific regard.
And as we can photographically stretch out a moment in time we can also stretch out a moment of space. I find myself particularly interested in this concept. I frequently rearrange, dismantle, disassemble and reassemble. This captured moment in time slowed to an imperceptible crawl can now be hovered over leisurely to dissect and rearrange. This spatial rearrangement could be considered more in line with the rushing-at-you-nonstop firehose of the internet, of massive real-time content frequently pushing us into information overload-- disjointed, distracted, busy, fractured, multifaceted and endlessly multitasking. Superficiality is easily the result of all this frenetic rushing about, but if it is possible to slow down even here, to combine the spatially multidimensional with the temporally leisurely, perhaps something new and interesting can be born in the resulting new-found balance...perhaps even some form of order pulled from the all the chaos.
grid analysis
Nothing in the manifest universe is permanent. It is merely that some things are more temporary than others. Nothing in life is still or frozen. Life is defined by movement itself.
It is incorrect to assume a photograph "freezes" a moment in time. Indeed, we often describe a photograph as a "still life". But nothing in life is truly still. It is more accurate to describe a photograph as a drastic slowing down-- imperceptibly even-- but never an utter stillness. Even as we are not perhaps aware, the atoms in that photograph, whether analog or digital, are dancing about and that fantastic dancing will continue right through until various modes of decay or the total universal death known as thermodynamic equilibrium silences it forever.
The frantic tides and currents of the internet realm move at a polarizing contrast to this slowing down of a single captured moment in time. A photo allows one to linger over a bygone moment, patiently, leisurely and with an attitude potentially unrushed by the clock on the wall. The internet world has only seemingly embraced the photo. In reality it is fundamentally at odds with the soul of a photo in this specific regard.
And as we can photographically stretch out a moment in time we can also stretch out a moment of space. I find myself particularly interested in this concept. I frequently rearrange, dismantle, disassemble and reassemble. This captured moment in time slowed to an imperceptible crawl can now be hovered over leisurely to dissect and rearrange. This spatial rearrangement could be considered more in line with the rushing-at-you-nonstop firehose of the internet, of massive real-time content frequently pushing us into information overload-- disjointed, distracted, busy, fractured, multifaceted and endlessly multitasking. Superficiality is easily the result of all this frenetic rushing about, but if it is possible to slow down even here, to combine the spatially multidimensional with the temporally leisurely, perhaps something new and interesting can be born in the resulting new-found balance...perhaps even some form of order pulled from the all the chaos.