” SIX HUNDRED SECONDS”
(The multidirectional flow of time)
© Ivan Cangelosi, 2023
80 X 80 cm
Ink on paper
Technique – Handwriting of the book “The concept of time” by Martin Heidegger and abstracts of the book “Matter and Memory” by Henri Bergson.
Just like the work entitled “Tempogramma” (https://ivancangelosi.com/project/tempogramma-2023/), this work (made through the handwriting of “the concept of time” by Martin Heidegger, together with extracts from the book “Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson) also intends to graphically depict the subjective perception of the flow of time. Listening (with my eyes closed) to the rhythm marked by a 60 BPM (Beats Per Minute) metronome, I outlined 600 lines each corresponding to 1 second of time. Hence the title “Six Hundred Seconds -The multidirectional flow of time”. The subtitle “The multidirectional flow of time” intends to emphasize the constant experience, which unites all of us, of living in a completely personal way our present time (hic et nunc), our past time (through memories ), your “own” future time (through imagination). In this sense time is “multidirectional”. This work “emerged”, as it appears, at the end of 600 seconds. Ten minutes in which the dotted lines have intersected in the way in which they appear, and in which each line/second, although the creation time was the same as that of all the other lines, shows a different length and direction.