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Die Zeitstucke series explores the idea of human experience as the pivotal point in
our perception of time.
In this body of work user is invited not only to experience time in different ways,
but to engage in its manipulation. This tampering with time occurs in a variety of
manners: from unintentional loss of few seconds here, to deliberate and absolute halt
of the flow for minutes there; from attentive search for meaning in the time passed
to violent hurdling up and down the visible timeline; from desperate attempts to work
against the relentlessness of time to the quiet acceptance of the shifting physical
manifestations of it.
Each component slowly, but methodically evolves, creating a sense of continuous
texture only fragmentarily experienced by the user.
Soft, organic images of human body combined with sharpness of grids and mechanics of
numeric display further emphasize the tensions between the subjectivity and the science
of time. Our understanding of "objective" time, however, takes place largely due to our
acceptance of time measuring devices, and the recognition of these objects as nearly
synonymous to the idea of time itself. In Die Zeitstucke Series the concept of time
functions as such device employed here to reflect on (and quantify?) such elusive themes
as memory, faith, knowledge and mortality.
 
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