Call it confession, or self accountability, call it an inventory of my questioning mind… these are the things I’m asking myself, my words and marks are attempting to wrestle with
1. What is the nature of time as it is felt, not measured?
2. How do bodies, materials, and environments participate in the making of meaning?
3. What does it mean to live, and make, within a shared field of perception, rather than as isolated selves?
And more detailed, because I’m that kind of dork:
I. Time, Presence, and Experience
• What is the felt structure of time, and how does it differ from the clock’s measure of it?
• Can time be understood as a medium rather than a line, as something we move within instead of through?
• How does duration accumulate or condense in the body, in mark, in atmosphere?
• What happens to time when we experience it through sustained attention, through slowness, repetition, or endurance?
• If all that exists is “now,” what does it mean to remember or anticipate?
II. Perception and Reality
• Where does perception occur, inside the body or within the shared field between bodies and environments?
• Is reality something seen, or something continually constructed in the act of seeing?
• How does the field between seer and seen shape what is possible to know?
• What role does attention play in generating the real?
III. Matter, Memory, and the Body
• Is the body itself a form of remembering, a site where time folds into form?
• How do material processes (erosion, layering, mark-making) mirror cognitive or emotional ones?
• What is carried in matter, and what is released through touch, repetition, or transformation?
• How do acts of making translate memory into material presence?
IV. Field, Atmosphere, and Relation
• What if the self is not a bounded subject but a field of exchanges, a porous zone of resonance?
• How do individual experiences contribute to or reshape the larger psychic and cultural field?
• What happens when we treat thought, perception, and emotion as forces that occupy shared space?
• How can a work of art become a localized field, a site of temporary reality?
V. Representation and the Limits of Language
• Can a visual or material form express the simultaneity of inner and outer time?
• How can language, image, or diagram map what is inherently unmappable?
• What happens to meaning when we recognize that all representation lags behind lived experience?
• Is it possible to create a score for experience rather than an image of it?
VI. The Ethics and Aesthetics of Attention
• What does it mean to make slowly in a culture that accelerates?
• How does duration become an ethical act, a resistance to fragmentation and shallowness?
• Can the cultivation of presence be a form of care, both for self and world?
• What kind of knowledge emerges from staying with something beyond the point of comfort or completion?
