A LONG AFTER_TIME
A work on time? Like wondering what effect time has on us, by the “we” I mean the artists, creators, image makers in the broad sense. Time affects us, it is undeniable and irreversible, but that does not meet the challenge of making images from it. So I looked for points of view, “topics” where obviously time was at work. Either the images thus constructed, by their atmospheres, by the elements which compose them, by certain effects of color and depth, by their symbolism, revealed a “time” at work, or because the subjects themselves were like victims, which have become signs of a time that has passed, either, and it is not very different, because the fragile and ephemeral beauty of the subjects made them more susceptible, even more vulnerable to the tests of time, or finally because the time, which is neither speed nor duration, was just the space of unforeseen encounters. Time, this variable of physics which has neither speed, nor space nor does not require a particular environment to exist does not stop talking to us about the past and the future but forces us to “today” . Time is a mystery that cannot be named or figured, but “controls” us everywhere and always. Without time we would have a hard time having any consciousness or even just existing. Time, because we neither know how to name it nor decipher it, could well be everywhere in the image, whatever the image and without the image knowing it. The image as an idea of space-time. This time which forever prevents the past from being altered, which condemns us to the moment already past, and only sparingly delivers clues to the future, gives the impression of knowing about us what we don’t. Given by physics or the fruit of consciousness, time is mysterious. However, things and events happen in time as if we were really only one of the objects of time.
Time is benevolent like those great cathedrals with invisible transcendences which welcome us and frighten us.
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