everything was forever until it was no more (notes)
The majority of my work (at the moment of this journal), both written and drawn, is born of a fascination with the perception of time as non-linear. I like the idea of space and time as inextricable from each other — for place to be an anchor around which all events occur simultaneously. To percieve things in this manner eradicates the function of narrative and chronology; instead of order, one posesses a soup of experience. The vivid disorientation that accompanies the obolescence of the order of time must then be made sense of through different means — the discovery of common threads within experiences, of how events relate to each other outside of the framework of consecutive time. On that note (kind of), I’m also interested in the use of symbols — the creation of a visual language through recurring imagery, whether it is place, object, or character. Hieroglyphs are a childhood fascination that’ve carried through to the present. I like the idea of usurping one’s own loosely-structured pictorial alphabet with the depiction of events without time — it’s replacing one structure with another, in a sense.
* My roommate is doing a fascinating course on post-Soviet society; the title for this series is lifted from one of her readings (Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More (2005)). Further reading? Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988) ; Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Ma - Space-time in Japan (1979)
