This is a three part work including an essay, an object, and a graphic component. The essay explores the idea of time, perception, and the measurement thereof: Time does not exist except as an abstract human construct that is useful for organizing the world. If time is internal, tied to perception, then it is maleable. Perception of a duration is tied to its proportion to total time lived. A moment for an infant is met with profound impatience because each moment is proportionally much larger to time lived than in say, someone who has lived 85 years. This is also why time seems to pass faster and faster as age increases. The object is a simple child's toy constructed from wood, pins, string, and paint. Each stripe represents four years (in conventional terms), the curve of the pins (and thus the stripes' thinning) represents the contraction of time with age. The toy is then a tool to measure the difference between time lived in conventional terms and the perceived length of that time, all with a simple gesture.
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