The aim of this project in brief, was to develop my thinking behind TIME, do we need it, why do we rely on it, does it help as much as hamper our systematic, controlling day to day life. This project partly stemmed from my mentor, guide, Mu’allim (arabic teacher) who after dedicating ten years of his life teaching me Arabic, a couple of years ago passed away. I seem to recall a friend saying, “its only a temporary pause”, you will meet him again, which was so true (the pause part), this mean’t I was playing and I too will be paused and stopped. Was this the reason we focus so much on trying to get as much out of time as possible, nearly all gadgets, inventions, technological advances, has one underlining objective, less ‘make ready and down time’ equals more production, inevitably this equals to more time, more time - more money and so on the next thing you know you’ve joined the rat race, on that wheel round and round, the faster you go, the less time.
To initiate the project I started researching Arabic calligraphy in more depth, in particular I found the Cursive and Kufic styles both visually and conceptually interesting. I wanted to some how explore the division between text and image and bring them together. The calligraphers that influenced me most were Hassan Massoudy, Samir Malik and Brody Neuenschwander, who all had one aim, create beautiful calligraphy but were so different in the way they executed their distinctive styles. Jackson Pollock was also thrown into the mix, who “wanted no physical constraints or boundaries to hinder or limit his paintings” and “wanted to express his feelings rather than illustrate them” this I could relate to.
The narrative behind my main piece [Expanding Time] is how we can control time to a certain extent but underneath our chained timeframes there is chaos, mayhem we will naturally be forced to disengage, the heart will have a rhythmic beat and rest, the eyes will need to blink and open, are we in control? are we in synch? If so, for how long?
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