2007 The Art Institute, Capilano College
Vancouver, Canada

A confined private space created out of the remnants of a weathered old wood fence. You open the door and discover the walls covered with clocks and watches. Some of them work and some don’t, some are new and some are old, some are digital and some are analog. They are ticking but are not synchronized.
Clocks and watches calculate time, one of the oldest human inventions. As the seasons and the phases of the sun and the moon can be used to measure the passage of longer periods of time, shorter processes had to be invented to measure off hours and minutes; hence the creation of clocks and watches.
After 4 years of being a student, I entered the “real world” in April 2007 with a BFA. I thought before that I had been running to get to class on time, hand in assignments and etc. for years; but no, the marathon had just started. I was and I still am racing with a concept that I can hardly comprehend. Space-Time is a primary construction of the universe, a dimension that could not be measured.
We all check the time numerous times during the day and we have all heard the phrase “time is money”. Well, in a capitalist society it’s extremely hard for a young artist to turn his/her time in to money! I felt as if my private self was constantly being invaded by the extremely quick passing of time. The modern world was advancing faster than my biology could take hold of it. This overwhelming feeling compelled me to create this “non-art” object and exhibit it in a gallery space so it could be art, but it’s really just a snap shot of the memory of art.
The clock is ticking or is it? And humanity is in search of her identity, her history, her purpose her place in the universe: in the past, now and the future.