Cycles

Cycles is an interactive photographic installation. Exploring cyclical time and de-colonising my idea of time away from linear and measured notions. I was interested in how individuals experience time for themselves. The possibility to move through the cycle fast or slow touched on the idea of a day feeling like forever but is just a blip in the grand scheme of creation. It’s about experiencing time in a different way, decolonising our idea of time. We are required to live by the clock, we wake up when its dark in winter to make it to work on time, we change our clocks forward to “save daylight”, our lives are centralised around what time it is. This colonial theory of time was forced on Aboriginal people to comply and in turn has negatively affected the way we interact with the land. I am looking at the cycles which have guided us for tens of thousands of years. The simplest way I can think to explain this is through the sky and the cycle of day to night. I was inspired by Tacita Dean‘s Green Ray and the way this phenomena was only captured through analogue processes. A reminder that sometimes newer isn’t always better, sometimes it takes returning to old ways in order to succeed.