“Ramblings of a beggar”
THE FOCUS OF MY PROJECT IS A STRINGENT CONSIDERATION OF THE HUMAN ASPECT OF TIME, of embracing how we see and use it as individuals, and cultivating that to produce a meaningful, and perhaps pragmatic piece. Forget the artsy stuff that takes a certain degree of insight to understand, detached from ourselves. I want to address the soul.
I do not wish to produce a novel approach to the traditional mode of timekeeping - conveying numbers; the clock has mastered this. The calendar has mastered this. I need to think about time in a different way.
Ideally, I do not wish to design anything without first applying my mind to the problem. I don’t want to have an end before having a beginning.
I’ll structure this presentation into two segments, beginning with ponderings about marking time, accumulating into an idea for a project, and then ponderings about keeping time, accumulating into a project. Keep note that, while it is efficient to segment these ideas, they are, in essence, interrelated and should not be considered in absence or independently of one another.
The question I pose is: how does one truly consider time?
Marking Time
1. time does nothing, it is other influences within the medium of time which affect us
It has always been a limited palette upon which our lives may occur.
Time itself does nothing to us. Our bodies do something to us. Other people, the environment do things to us. But not time itself.
Time is irrelevant without context
You never consider time in and of itself. You consider other things within the context of time. In other words,
We mark time with event and circumstance - lets go a little further than this... with the emotional stimulus associated with that event
HAMMER HOME THAT TIME IS IRRELEVANT WITHOUT CONTEXT.
Thus, time as a medium in which one may record the emotional events of their lives.
2. Chronology is essential
Regardless of physical theories
Is the point of time chronology (order)? Is it essential that things happened in order, or simply that they happened? Well, their position in time is relevant. Time, regardless of its physical nature, is, and always has been, linear to us.
The use of chronology also allows the use of scale, and the establishment of relationship.
So... for marking time, you have a palette of time, with chronological relevance, but a disconnect from the unnecessary and unused numerical structure, on which you may record your emotional state - caused by event and circumstance. it can grow, as you markers grow.
My current idea for this is some wavy thing on a wall that uses magnets to attach smileys(?) in different increments, relationships, that you can attach additional memorabilia to (perhaps via a dangling little chain with a clip at the end hanging off each smiley). The unused smileys are just sitting in a pile on a table or on the floor, or in a buck or drawer, whatever - representing future markings waiting to be used. Ideally you should be able to see them, to be eager or reluctant to place one.
We NEVER say “year and time” when we remember events - like a picture, a video. You appreciate it for what it is. What I’m doing here is introducing the aspect of time, and thus the relationship between these events, into the remembrance. There is more meaning this way (As opposed to a picture sitting on the table, another on the wall, with no relation).
So. The focus here is less on time in and of itself, because truly, it’s nothing without what occurs on it.
Keeping Time
1. gradual - increment
The numerical nature of time - that is, accuracy and congruency - is an invention and perpetuator of our lifestyle. We view time in terms of numbers now... most specifically, in terms of increments, i.e. 12 oclock, 1 oclock. But time is not incremental - it is infinitely gradual. This is the only way we can think about it. Do we embrace this or recognize and deviate? What do these increments really mean? 12 oclock is meaningless without a context. 12 oclock really means “lunch break.” Lunch break is a larger increment in an unspoken, unrecognized series of increments. Let us consider these “true,” “meaningful” increments (of routine)
Perhaps a clock that goes straight to the point. Focus on routine. Life is routine. But with the occasional deviance. How might we address this?
2. Relativity
More ideas.
Time is entirely relative. Physically, it depends on how fast you move. Some even say that all time exists at the same time - its static, and you simply travel along it. Truly a palette.
To us, it depends on what you’re doing - does a chunk of time if your life simply disappear? You have no idea what happened then (unless something significant anchors it... thus, is this time truly insignificant?). Does some time seem sooooooO slow? Does time go by faster when you’re having a good time? It doesn’t but it seems so. How we see it is relevant (as inconstant). And how we see it is all that counts. Perhaps we can do a piece which changes is rate. At least address this.
Do we consider it linearly? In terms of progression or in terms of movement? Is it the building up of sand/water or is it moving randomly along a labyrinth board?
Do we consider time as accumulation?? Does it grow? Perhaps only in terms of reaching a limit (death). It’s less accumulation, than it is progression, repetition.
THOUGH TIME IS INDEED INFINITELY GRADUAL - WE. DON’T. CONSIDER. IT. THAT. WAY. We break it into pieces associated with event.
3. scale
OKAY, LETS MAKE SOMETHING THAT PUTS INTO PERSPECTIVE THE DIFFERENT SCALES OF TIME TOGETHER IN ONE. A WHOLE AND ENLIGHTENING VIEW OF TIME.
You DO think about time in lieu of seconds, minutes, day, months, years, decades. You can even place this in the context of human history (though this becomes removed from my mission to keep this meaningful to the person looking at it). Is there something that can be gained from seeing all these in perspective??
4. dimensions
What about something that, as you look at it, not only informs you of the present, but of the past and future? Perhaps a ring board that goes around and around that you can write on? In the context of a week?
So we have view and emotion. What about sound? Time has no sound. Timepieces have sound. We have grown to associate this sound with time itself, in meaningless increments. Is there a way to impose this sound to meaningful increments? Might it get louder at times? Or does it remain silent, and just announce times (with your own voice) when their increments come.
Remember to hammer home that the number of time is meaningless without something to associate it with!!!! TIME AS ASSOCIATED WITH EMOTION
CONSIDER CARRYING THE THEME OVER TO TIMEKEEPING
That's all, if you're reading this, props on your patience!
THE FOCUS OF MY PROJECT IS A STRINGENT CONSIDERATION OF THE HUMAN ASPECT OF TIME, of embracing how we see and use it as individuals, and cultivating that to produce a meaningful, and perhaps pragmatic piece. Forget the artsy stuff that takes a certain degree of insight to understand, detached from ourselves. I want to address the soul.
I do not wish to produce a novel approach to the traditional mode of timekeeping - conveying numbers; the clock has mastered this. The calendar has mastered this. I need to think about time in a different way.
Ideally, I do not wish to design anything without first applying my mind to the problem. I don’t want to have an end before having a beginning.
I’ll structure this presentation into two segments, beginning with ponderings about marking time, accumulating into an idea for a project, and then ponderings about keeping time, accumulating into a project. Keep note that, while it is efficient to segment these ideas, they are, in essence, interrelated and should not be considered in absence or independently of one another.
The question I pose is: how does one truly consider time?
Marking Time
1. time does nothing, it is other influences within the medium of time which affect us
It has always been a limited palette upon which our lives may occur.
Time itself does nothing to us. Our bodies do something to us. Other people, the environment do things to us. But not time itself.
Time is irrelevant without context
You never consider time in and of itself. You consider other things within the context of time. In other words,
We mark time with event and circumstance - lets go a little further than this... with the emotional stimulus associated with that event
HAMMER HOME THAT TIME IS IRRELEVANT WITHOUT CONTEXT.
Thus, time as a medium in which one may record the emotional events of their lives.
2. Chronology is essential
Regardless of physical theories
Is the point of time chronology (order)? Is it essential that things happened in order, or simply that they happened? Well, their position in time is relevant. Time, regardless of its physical nature, is, and always has been, linear to us.
The use of chronology also allows the use of scale, and the establishment of relationship.
So... for marking time, you have a palette of time, with chronological relevance, but a disconnect from the unnecessary and unused numerical structure, on which you may record your emotional state - caused by event and circumstance. it can grow, as you markers grow.
My current idea for this is some wavy thing on a wall that uses magnets to attach smileys(?) in different increments, relationships, that you can attach additional memorabilia to (perhaps via a dangling little chain with a clip at the end hanging off each smiley). The unused smileys are just sitting in a pile on a table or on the floor, or in a buck or drawer, whatever - representing future markings waiting to be used. Ideally you should be able to see them, to be eager or reluctant to place one.
We NEVER say “year and time” when we remember events - like a picture, a video. You appreciate it for what it is. What I’m doing here is introducing the aspect of time, and thus the relationship between these events, into the remembrance. There is more meaning this way (As opposed to a picture sitting on the table, another on the wall, with no relation).
So. The focus here is less on time in and of itself, because truly, it’s nothing without what occurs on it.
Keeping Time
1. gradual - increment
The numerical nature of time - that is, accuracy and congruency - is an invention and perpetuator of our lifestyle. We view time in terms of numbers now... most specifically, in terms of increments, i.e. 12 oclock, 1 oclock. But time is not incremental - it is infinitely gradual. This is the only way we can think about it. Do we embrace this or recognize and deviate? What do these increments really mean? 12 oclock is meaningless without a context. 12 oclock really means “lunch break.” Lunch break is a larger increment in an unspoken, unrecognized series of increments. Let us consider these “true,” “meaningful” increments (of routine)
Perhaps a clock that goes straight to the point. Focus on routine. Life is routine. But with the occasional deviance. How might we address this?
2. Relativity
More ideas.
Time is entirely relative. Physically, it depends on how fast you move. Some even say that all time exists at the same time - its static, and you simply travel along it. Truly a palette.
To us, it depends on what you’re doing - does a chunk of time if your life simply disappear? You have no idea what happened then (unless something significant anchors it... thus, is this time truly insignificant?). Does some time seem sooooooO slow? Does time go by faster when you’re having a good time? It doesn’t but it seems so. How we see it is relevant (as inconstant). And how we see it is all that counts. Perhaps we can do a piece which changes is rate. At least address this.
Do we consider it linearly? In terms of progression or in terms of movement? Is it the building up of sand/water or is it moving randomly along a labyrinth board?
Do we consider time as accumulation?? Does it grow? Perhaps only in terms of reaching a limit (death). It’s less accumulation, than it is progression, repetition.
THOUGH TIME IS INDEED INFINITELY GRADUAL - WE. DON’T. CONSIDER. IT. THAT. WAY. We break it into pieces associated with event.
3. scale
OKAY, LETS MAKE SOMETHING THAT PUTS INTO PERSPECTIVE THE DIFFERENT SCALES OF TIME TOGETHER IN ONE. A WHOLE AND ENLIGHTENING VIEW OF TIME.
You DO think about time in lieu of seconds, minutes, day, months, years, decades. You can even place this in the context of human history (though this becomes removed from my mission to keep this meaningful to the person looking at it). Is there something that can be gained from seeing all these in perspective??
4. dimensions
What about something that, as you look at it, not only informs you of the present, but of the past and future? Perhaps a ring board that goes around and around that you can write on? In the context of a week?
So we have view and emotion. What about sound? Time has no sound. Timepieces have sound. We have grown to associate this sound with time itself, in meaningless increments. Is there a way to impose this sound to meaningful increments? Might it get louder at times? Or does it remain silent, and just announce times (with your own voice) when their increments come.
Remember to hammer home that the number of time is meaningless without something to associate it with!!!! TIME AS ASSOCIATED WITH EMOTION
CONSIDER CARRYING THE THEME OVER TO TIMEKEEPING
That's all, if you're reading this, props on your patience!
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