the Shadows of Time

Looking at our Year in terms of light and darkness has revealed a lot of the symmetry that underlies our days, and how we imagine them.

With a recent burst in creative energy, I started making this visual wheels of the year, where each day is shaded from 100% black (the Winter Solstice) through greyscale to 100% white (the Summer Solstice). Because the Winter Solstice takes place at opposite times of year depending on whether you’re in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, I’ve taken to making 2 of each image.

for more detail see: theAbysmal Calendar

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Defining Time

Our common experience, across the globe, over time.

Time is such a nebulous concept, in no small part because so many of us have so much stake in all of the ways it takes form in our lives: schedules, anniversaries, history, evolution, prediction, etc. It is embedded in our languages, and is inseparable from our thoughts of space.

Examples of Time Synaesthesia
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