#temporal consciousness

[jasonengelund]

Meta-Landscapes: Expressions of Temporal Consciousness, New Abstractions in Photography

A a new exposition I've published is available online.

Abstract: Artist Jason Engelund approaches photography by addressing psychological frameworks of different world-time views, and shifts in perceptions of time during individual events. The notion of a “visual time signature” is proposed, a phrase to describe types of temporal consciousness, incorporating cultural and individual time perception as they relate to cognition, experience, and image. Expressions of the “meta-landscape” encompassing both the psychological landscape and actual landscape are pictured and discussed.

(The webpage has some troubles loading into some combinations of web browsers and devices, like samsung tab and chrome. If you don't see my photographs in the exposition, try loading it in a different browser, or device.)

http://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/147310/147311

[jasonengelund]

"Visual Time Signatures" an excerpt from what I'm working on:

These different world time views reflect different psychological frameworks with which people  perceive the world and events. I’d like to consider both the cultural framework and individual circumstances as we consider time, perception, and cognition in an idea I call “visual time signature”. A visual time signature is the perceptual and psychological framework of how one witnesses and relates to time, which underlies the process of perceiving and understanding. Visual time signatures may vary based on the event, such as the slow motion perception while in the crashing car, as opposed to a time signature of average, everyday life. Visual time signatures may vary throughout people and cultures A cultural notion of time, of the past, present, a future creates different world-views. Differences in visual time signatures can lead to differences in perception, interpretation and understanding.

"Photographing All-ness"(pictured) The image is a composite cinema of multiple moments. The light reflecting from the objects of the landscape through multiple instances, is layered on the film   creating a density that merges the visual elements into one unified field of white light.