Here we’re exploring time and emotion as layered, non-linear experiences. Our interest here is found in how the present moment is always entangled with memory, expectation, and repetition; how the past and future overlap inside our perception of “now.” We move through life moment by moment, yet when we try to recall or document these moments, they collapse into single narratives (images, stories and or feelings) : a memory, a headline, a photograph, a receipt. The flow of experience becomes a single event.

Across this body of work, I treat time and emotion similarly: as both continuous waves and as discrete particles. We live inside fluid, shifting states. ( pleasure / pain, happiness / sadness, certainty/ uncertainty) Yet we often remember them only as fixed points. Life does not balance itself; it swings.

Experiences arrive and disrupt us, shaping our understanding of ourselves and others. We cannot choose what we notice or feel; perception is unavoidable. We recognise faces instantly, assign value instinctively, and move between emotional states that overlap rather than replace one another.

Visually, these ideas manifest through video frames restructured into grids. A single film clip is broken into its individual frames, each one unique yet fundamentally the same. like days that feel distinct while we live them, but blur into pattern when reflected upon. Over the grid, the original video clip plays again in slowed or fragmented motion, allowing viewers to hold two realities at once: time as a continuous flow and time as incremental slices.

Here in these short clips (sourced from youtube) we see the transitions between joy and sadness occurring within seconds. Each frame contains the entire emotional arc compressed into a single composite image, questioning whether any emotional state is ever singular.

Together, these works ask:

What is the shape of experience?
Is it a line, a loop, a wave, a repetition?
If we already know how something ends, what changes about the way we live through it?

The pieces invite viewers to notice the familiarity in difference, the sameness within change, and the way lived experience, no matter how vivid it often resolves into patterns only visible in hindsight.

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