Geometries of Time

This drawing study is an attempt to represent historical notions about the forces that drive the shape and direction of time. The first is the snake that eats its tail: perhaps an image of cyclical time in ancient Egypt. The last is inspired by the knot – which appears to be a counter-image to the line of progress – in Laurence Sterne’s eighteenth-century novel, Tristram Shandy. Each drawing has a specially shaped card mount. The knot, for example, is set within a tridecagon or thirteen-sided polygon.

Exhibition history
* before breakfast we talked about the furthest visible point before it all disappeared, with Fay Nicolson, Kentaro Yamada, Andrea Zucchini and The School of the Event Horizon, Tenderpixel, London (2014)
* Tenderpixel at Art Rotterdam, with Erika Hock, Fay Nicolson and Ilona Sagar (2015)

Images (from top)
* 4 × digital version of Geometries of Time, 2014
* Geometries of Time, 2014 (graphite on paper, card passepartout, acrylic frame; 30 × 30 × 3 cm); photo by Original&theCopy, courtesy of the artist and Tenderpixel