TIME TEXTURE, 2023
by JUN ZHANG
Could there be alternative ways to record and measure the passing of time when we live in different environments and when facing challenges to the future of life itself. Time Texture, proposes that material, color and texture becomes a way to record the passing of life through creating unique material memories of each person. In this way, time grows similarly to the development of tree rings as the tree ages, or the growing of a cave stalactite and stalagmite.
For instance, a plant may represent your time due to your interests. You may use the biomass and growing environment of the plant to reconstitute the parts to quantify your work and rest time, your behavior habits, and passing thoughts. Leaves, stem, roots, soil and rock is harvested and coalesced into a unified whole - capturing person, other life, the elements, and sense of place over a timeline.
The material clocks can record and share your human story.
As we face extinction events, your exclusive memory will become more important and meaningful than a numerical measurement of time. Material evidence of your life proves that you existed, if only for a moment on the scale of the universe. When lives of entire species slip-by without trace, we turn to the texture of our material memory, like a geologic fossil, to touch and feel every moment.
What material substance will capture your time on Earth?
This project was created by JUN ZHANG, as part of the Design for Discourse emphasis on the MA Industrial Design course at Central Saint Martins, UAL.
Currently exhibited at Westminster Reference Library 24 May - 14 June 2023
Secure your place for public talk 11:00-12:30 on 15 June here.
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