Now
Single channel immersive video installation
Duration: timeless
2015
The word NOW appears and dissolves in a red background. As soon as the word dissolves it leaves an after-image, which is present yet absent and becomes the central element in the video due to the contrast of its subtlety with the overwhelming red background, and also the never-ending repetition. The red colour creates an immersive environment. The present cannot be defined or captured, it is ephemeral, just like this after-image. The after-image refers to the present moment, not from the perspective of the mechanical clock, but as a being in itself with its own varied nature, taking different forms, abstract and fluid. Now is ambiguous, appearing to be between past and future, but deceiving us with its illusive presence, an intangible experience which is, but yet not present. It can only be sensed subtly, like this after-image, like touching the surface of a river without wetting your fingers.
Time revolves to return and halt
it falls and breaks to a satiated memory
which can no more count
no more depart
or withstand the vast void
which lies between
inhale and exhale
a nascent caught amid the present iteration
leaping into the darkness of anomaly
a constant struggle
a constant
that moment distracting
unconscious from conscious
that unprecedented moment
yet not present
now…
it hides and slips into a perpetual flux
where it tends to meet with eagerness
and stay
still moving and flickering,
unnoticed, unattended
at times a glimpse,
a flash
kicking a stone to and fro,
touching the surface of the moving river
where does it rest?
a time which doesn’t catch attention
when lost in thoughts,
when not conscious to care
slowly and secretly elopes
withdrawing
into the open
ended
brackets
of
anticipation
Time revolves to return and escape.
2 12 ’15
(notes from diary)
sonam 