” THREE HUNDRED SECONDS”
(The multidirectional flow of time)
© Ivan Cangelosi, 2023
75 X 55 cm
Ink on paper
Technique – Handwriting of abstracts of the book “The mysteries of time” by Paul Davies.
This work, entitled “Three Hundred Seconds”, is the second work dedicated to the trilogy on “The multidirectional flow of time”. It follows the work “Six Hundred Seconds” (https://ivancangelosi.com/project/six-hundred-seconds-the-multidirectional-flow-of-time-2023/) and precedes the last work planned on this issue entitled “Half An Hour”. This work (created through the handwriting of some abstracts of the book “The Mysteries of Time” by Paul Davies) also intends to graphically depict the subjective perception of the flow of time. I present here, mutatis mutandis, the explanation provided on the occasion of the publication of the images of “Six Hundred Seconds”.
“Listening (with my eyes closed) to the rhythm marked by a 60 BPM (Beats Per Minute) metronome, I outlined 300 lines each corresponding to 1 second of time. Hence the title “Three 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 300 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.