I did a lot of research on the subjectivity and objectivity of time, the biological clock of the human body, and I also went through Christian’s The Clock project, and Helga’s uchronia project, as well as reading the book called Time. I think I spent a lot of time trying to understand what I didn’t know about it and came up with some insights of my own.
Time is difficult to define precisely, but can be broadly divided into two opposing aspects: subjective time and objective time. Subjective time is the time perceived by people, while objective time is measured by clocks and calendars. Time itself does not exist , it is just a virtual unit of scale that we have created to measure changes in material space. This is my definition of time.
Time is invisible, But invisible time leaves traces, shadows or sounds in visible
The time we are talking about is artificially set. Therefore, the objective time measured by clocks and calendars was originally constructed subjectively, and the scale units of clocks and calendars were also defined by people’s subjective feelings.
For example, the traditional Chinese 24 solar terms were subjectively defined by the ancient Chinese people according to the climatic changes generated by the annual movement of the sun and the effects on crops.
Therefore, In order to break the binary opposition。we can also define the clock in a new way, based on our own subjective feelings. , I have tried to create an absolutely subjective time clock using my personal subjective feelings, fundamentally reversing this logical chain of artificially constructed objective time. I’m trying to find a balance between the subjectivity and objectivity of time.
Einstein said: “Time is an illusion of perception”. Because the disappearance of some things is the change of the things themselves. Time is invisible, But invisible time leaves traces, shadows or sounds in visible things. So I documented the torment my pillow went through this week. I’m used to working in bed and when I leave my bed my pillow takes on a weird shape. How much it deforms depending on how long I stay in bed, for example when I get up in the morning, it even takes on an even weirder shape.
