idea entry: week 01: sept 02

word of the week: TIME
quotes:
"Aristotle claimed that “time is the measure of change” [Physics, chapter 12], but he emphasized “that time is not change [itself]” because a change “may be faster or slower, but not time…” "

"If your personal time were circular, you could be assured that after your death you would be reborn. The future becomes the past. If time is like this, then the question arises as to whether there would be an endless number of times when each state of the world reoccurred, or whether, accepting Leibniz’s Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles, each supposedly repeating state of the world would occur just once because each state would be not be discernible from the repeated state."

source:
Dowden, Bradley. "Time." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1 Aug. 2001. Web. 31 Aug. 2010. .
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summary:
Time has always fascinated the human mind. Perhaps its the intangible nature that we yearn to seize rather than the curiosity of how it works.

We have our three-dimensional world. Time is considered this mysterious fourth dimension. How ironic it sounds that a two-dimensional photograph could represent such in so many context. Time is represented through the style, the lighting, any particular object(s) that play a substantial role in an image, and the real time; the captured scene of the event that is, and passed by, to render as was on a photograph.

Something that continues to cloud my brain when I think of time as a photographer is the way a single photograph can represent a sliver of time, or the full passage of an event. Time has the power to 'see' very briefly, as well as commit to be a loyal witness of all and everything.

I have explored long exposure photography and motion-studies that run from a few minutes to as long as hours. Something else that continues to intrigue me about time is, I will never be able to recreate the same image twice, if time is my subject and it is exciting! As well as frustrating.