There are many ways to see time pass by, but one of the better ways to experience the passing of time is to watch how the seasons pass every year. From winter to spring, to summer, to fall, and then watch them pass again and again. We are living in season loops repeatedly. We, humans, see the seasons pass by, they move in circles, while we, like time, move only in one direction, we live and move linearly, the dash way. The dash between our two major days, the day we were born and the day we die. The difference between us and time is that we have an end, but time never stops.
The positive thing is that even though we are watching the seasons pass by every year each season brings a new thing, a new hope, an exciting new way of seeing things that help us focus on the new season of life and not on thinking that our dash or our time on earth or thinking that one day will be over, or how close we could be to the other side of the dash.
My images are about time and the illustration of it by movement of how time does not stop in a moment, or during a human experience throughout the seasons of the year or any time. Each image is a moment or experience of random humans or my humans… even me as a human on this planet, that I decided to include in a photograph while trying to freeze seconds that would never stop, during different seasons of the year… or anytime really.
The reason for this project is that I am in a moment in my life where I have become obsessed with time. I am in the middle of my lifetime here on earth which made me reflect on things I have done so far in my life and the time I have left ( to do things!). Every second we get closer and closer to the other side of the dash. Time doesnāt have mercy, it keeps moving no matter how much we try to slow it down, stop it, or freeze it. I donāt want time to keep passing without me leaving a positive visual impression of our earthly life.
My intended audience is you, every human because all of us have a dash between two major dates on this earth with many seasons in between, is up to us how will express and live that dash. I want my viewer to examine each image and dig in within the colorful moving multilayer moments of each season and try to think about what is important in life, at the same time I want them to associate the experiences with their own life while enjoying the colorful visual experience of our moving, fleeting time on earth. I want my audience to be conscious of how valuable time is because we are constantly running out of it. I want to inspire you to life life fully no matter the circumstances.
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Xamara Maisonet 