Temporal Paradox
Temporal Paradox confronts the most fundamental of contradictions: that we all move through time, yet no two people — or clocks — share the same experience of it. Set in a surrealist landscape where massive timepieces are not mere instruments but monuments embedded in living rock, the work constructs a world where time has become architecture.
Human figures navigate this impossible terrain at different altitudes, each inhabiting their own temporal reality — some ascending, some pausing, some gesturing toward the sky as if summoning a different hour entirely. Above them, planets drift in orbital reverie: cosmic clocks operating on scales that render our pocket watches almost comic in their precision. Three clocks stand at the center of the landscape. They disagree. Their hands point to different hours. This is not malfunction; it is the revelation that Einstein made rigorous and lived experience confirms every day — time is not one thing. It never was.
In slowly zooming toward these timepieces over fifteen seconds, the animation mirrors how time distorts with attention: the closer we look, the more it expands, the more its paradoxes compound. The question the work poses is not what time is it — but whose time, experienced by which body, measured by what instrument, on a planet that is itself a clock orbiting a star that is itself a clock inside a universe whose beginning we are still trying to locate.
Type / Format: Video Art (MP4)
Edition: 1/1
Resolution: 2160x2160 (Square Format)
18.5 MB