NOT FIXED

The mirror is a revelation. The image is a revelation we can’t walk away from and perhaps that’s why is often intimidating to look at a photo of yourself. The image signals a time. In my experience of time I’ve felt often tricked by my face. I cut this image to deform it, to unfix it. When I stitched the pieces back together, I realised how it could be folded. This image can be folded five times (you can test it in your imagination). To fold something is to divide but also to join together. What’s being folded is comprised, made smaller, taken away from its original form but it is also getting closer, literally touching and facing its parts. What’s folded is getting closer to itself.

Passage is about the perception of space in relation to time, the past image against the present tangibility of the thread. In a way it’s about a no space, or a space only possible in our minds, particularly in our memory, where time bends. Or in states of creativity too. The “no space” also happens when we create. It’s a subtle state, don’t know we are there until we are there.

This made me think of one of Borges essays in which he included what St Augustine said about time. “What is time? If you don’t ask me, I know; but if you ask me, I don’t know”