
Ingrid van Amsterdam
FRACTIONS OF TIME IN MOTION , 2014
video
6:59 minutes
NZD $6.59
illusion | time | surrealism | ’You cannot capture a moment in time as everything is constantly in motion (therefore) you can capture an idea or illusion only’ | ’Seeing through the illusion into another one’.
All time – past, present and future, is coexistent/visible simultaneously, depending on the experiencer’s perspective.
“Is real time as we know it, real, and is matter, matter?”
Are we able to see or perceive better, in the presence of more moisture?
Scientists Alan Guth (“We should be able to create an entirely new universe from a laboratory, or even, from our basement”), and Burt Ovrut: “…it might be possible to have these ‘brane collisions produce all of the effects of the early Universe, in particular it’s just easy to do with my hands” (clapping hands). “When they collide, we might have a Big Bang.” (BBC Horizon, (2001), Parallel Universes).
If we are able to see/perceive better when there is more moisture in the atmosphere, would that mean that as an individual, under the right conditions, we would be able to create a new universe, by clapping wet hands? Does this make us a creator? Does this make us a god?
“God created the heavens and the earth”.
Some people believe God is a person. Some believe God is everything – All That Is – and therefore I am God – I am part of All That Is. Therefore All That Is, is I, or you, or in fact, anything, anyone and every one. Therefore God is everything, and nothing in particular.
Scientist Neil Turok in Parallel Universes: “Nobody has a solution for the singularity problem, other than essentially by starting the Universe at a certain time by hand.” The hand of (a) God?
Either belief seems to make sense now. Maybe science and religion lay not so far apart, leading directly to metaethics: the metaphysical component of metaethics involves discovering specifically whether moral values are eternal truths that exist in a spirit-like realm, or simply human conventions.
It seems that the physical and non-physical in the Universe are one and the same. Everything is energy.
This video is an experimental attempt to capture time, or rather the illusion of time in motion, by the clapping of hands immersed in flowing river water – this natural body of water carries history and memory of all time.
The Water Goddess just stands there clapping her hands – in the age old history present in the flowing river water ~ this is literally history in the making.
Attempting to get to the nitty gritty of the material, I purposely used slow motion to get as much detail as possible; it significantly caused the footage to jitter which did a perfect job of accentuating fractions of time in motion and the effect on view and especially sound (I love listening to this at relatively high volume to catch as much detail as possible), couldn’t be more appropriate. We get the opportunity to see and hear what in ‘real’ time can not be detected, changing our perception of time and space completely as we watch in the moment and our relationship with time/space/matter is being challenged.
The major question I raise then is: ‘What is the relationship between space/time/matter and the viewer?‘
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