#time project

Decomposing roses.

"Looking at us now, it's difficult to tell what made us into what we are now." (Left side-past, right side-present)

I decided to move on to move materials that had become junk to someone else, that also have a history within them. Taking my Mum’s old sewing and knitting materials, I believed string and wool could be an effective way of recording  time. By using an online calculator, I worked out the length of time people around me have lived as of 03/11/17. I chose to document only myself, the people surrounding me at the time, and my parents' lives. I then cut out string in proportion to how many days we each have lived. This highlighted how short my time on this earth has been, only 7009 days, putting into perspective why I may have this strange sense of nostalgia relating to eras in which I didn’t even exist. The installation spans from my father’s birth in 1966 to present day on the longest string.

Timed Connections, final.

Exploring how people document or hold onto a certain part of their life, I looked at using yearbooks. I photographed the same people whose life I recorded in the first installation, excluding myself and my parents. After watching the film ‘Tell Me How I Die’ (2016) I began to explore the idea that time may not be linear, in the sense there is a past, present and future, as this was a major theme in the film which conveniently influenced my thought process. I chose to present the idea of a non-linear timeline by placing the strings in all directions like a web, instead of a horizontal graph that often represents time in documentation like graphs. Although the strings still represent lines, these all start at different points in time and they may end up pointing in opposite directions. The point in which two strings meet are meant to convey a connection to someone else’s life. I also tried to express how one can never properly look back into the past accurately - to exactly how things were - memories are just a blur of what really happened. You can never relive the moment exactly as it happened through memory. You just remember a slightly off, not fabricated and less detailed version of certain events in your life. This idea of not being able to look back on the past is what drew me to making holes through the eyes in the photographs and then to put string through them.

Just one of my doodles. Or something.

Lynette Armbruster is a German engineer, specializing in firearms and advanced weaponry. She became the head craftswoman of Jawse's organization at the age of 20. Growing up in a military-like family, she was surrounded by firearms and became fascinated with how they worked and were put together. Being home schooled gave her extra time to study the machines of mass destruction, all whilst keeping her personal studies secret, even during the toughest and serious times in the family. Her parents sent her off to the military to follow their footsteps, but she secretly joined Jawse's crew when she was offered to study and make firearms with hands-on experience.