In the meantime, nothing happens [2015]
[Installation]
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events [linear] that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. Days are organized by the progression of the clock, in the short to medium term by calendars and diaries, history by timelines stretching back over millennia. All cultures have a sense of past, present and future, but for much of human history this has been underpinned by a more fundamental sense of time as cyclical. The past is also the future, the future is also the past, the beginning also the end [A hybrid of cyclical and linear]. Nothing exists purely as a point on a map or a moment in time: everything stands in relation to everything else.
[Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.]
[The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.]
The principle of linguistic relativity states that the way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language that the people use to talk about it. Or more radically, people could only perceive aspects of the world for which their language has words. By definition, languages are limiting. We cannot speak about things if the words don’t exist to allow us to do so. Sometimes, this makes us unaware of concepts others are able to discuss, other times, this limitation renders us incapable of speaking about things of which we are aware. An easier way to explain this is with time. An English speaker would usually organize time from left to right, but with Arabic speakers, time is laid out from right to left. Different languages also call for different ways of counting. In French, 92 is quatre-vingt-douze or “four twenties and twelve”. But for English, 92 is simply ninety-two. Contrast this with Mandarin Chinese, where the relationship between the tens and the units is very clear. Here, 92 is written jiǔ shí èr, which translates as “nine ten two”.
Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world. For ordinary cardinal numbers, however, modern Greece uses Arabic numerals.
Reviving Ancient Greek numerals’s use in clocks time. Thus introducing [merging in a way] yet another dimension in the context of time. That of the language.
In the meantime, nothing happens [2015]
[Installation]
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events [linear] that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. Days are organized by the progression of the clock, in the short to medium term by calendars and diaries, history by timelines stretching back over millennia. All cultures have a sense of past, present and future, but for much of human history this has been underpinned by a more fundamental sense of time as cyclical. The past is also the future, the future is also the past, the beginning also the end [A hybrid of cyclical and linear]. Nothing exists purely as a point on a map or a moment in time: everything stands in relation to everything else.
[Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.]
[The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.]
The principle of linguistic relativity states that the way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language that the people use to talk about it. Or more radically, people could only perceive aspects of the world for which their language has words. By definition, languages are limiting. We cannot speak about things if the words don’t exist to allow us to do so. Sometimes, this makes us unaware of concepts others are able to discuss, other times, this limitation renders us incapable of speaking about things of which we are aware. An easier way to explain this is with time. An English speaker would usually organize time from left to right, but with Arabic speakers, time is laid out from right to left. Different languages also call for different ways of counting. In French, 92 is quatre-vingt-douze or “four twenties and twelve”. But for English, 92 is simply ninety-two. Contrast this with Mandarin Chinese, where the relationship between the tens and the units is very clear. Here, 92 is written jiǔ shí èr, which translates as “nine ten two”.
Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world. For ordinary cardinal numbers, however, modern Greece uses Arabic numerals.
Reviving Ancient Greek numerals’s use in clocks time. Thus introducing [merging in a way] yet another dimension in the context of time. That of the language.
In the meantime, nothing happens [2015]
[Installation]
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events [linear] that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. Days are organized by the progression of the clock, in the short to medium term by calendars and diaries, history by timelines stretching back over millennia. All cultures have a sense of past, present and future, but for much of human history this has been underpinned by a more fundamental sense of time as cyclical. The past is also the future, the future is also the past, the beginning also the end [A hybrid of cyclical and linear]. Nothing exists purely as a point on a map or a moment in time: everything stands in relation to everything else.
[Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.]
[The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.]
The principle of linguistic relativity states that the way people think of the world is influenced directly by the language that the people use to talk about it. Or more radically, people could only perceive aspects of the world for which their language has words. By definition, languages are limiting. We cannot speak about things if the words don’t exist to allow us to do so. Sometimes, this makes us unaware of concepts others are able to discuss, other times, this limitation renders us incapable of speaking about things of which we are aware. An easier way to explain this is with time. An English speaker would usually organize time from left to right, but with Arabic speakers, time is laid out from right to left. Different languages also call for different ways of counting. In French, 92 is quatre-vingt-douze or “four twenties and twelve”. But for English, 92 is simply ninety-two. Contrast this with Mandarin Chinese, where the relationship between the tens and the units is very clear. Here, 92 is written jiǔ shí èr, which translates as “nine ten two”.
Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet. In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world. For ordinary cardinal numbers, however, modern Greece uses Arabic numerals.
Reviving Ancient Greek numerals’s use in clocks time. Thus introducing [merging in a way] yet another dimension in the context of time. That of the language.