Monday, January 28, 2013

from Subway/Paris (selected 2013)









Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

- from Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot


To document my daily commute to work, I take cell-phone photographs from the platform of the subway.  Often, these images show the continual decay of the stations, the stages of damages underneath fresh coats of paints, and the marks left by the workers signaling their tasks.  Coincidentally, years earlier my mother was keeping a journal, in the form of photographic slides, of her walks to and from school, of the sights she saw, the people she encountered, when she was a student in Paris.  Afterwards, as my mother focused on her career, the slides languished in a drawer and were never shown. 

The artworks in this on-going series, Subway/Paris, close the distance in time and localities and combine both of our droning routines and Sisyphean efforts.  The involved processes in the creation of the individual pieces further echo the repetitive manner in which we live each day and strive to move forward.


ATYL 2012-2013

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