The concept behind this post was to explore the relationship between photography and time.
The common sense or naïve conception of time understands temporality as a constant stream of now-moments, or a succession of nows that come into being and pass away. Multiple now-moments strung out in a line. The traditional conception of time as a continuous series of “nows” can be found in Aristotle.
Still photography is traditionally seen as a slice of time, and in the context of the naive conception time this photo would be interpreted as now moments . The now moment when the shutter of the 5x4 Sinar camera was realised. Time, on this account, is an object that stands apart from us. It is calculative or clock time.
This image though is an attempt to explore temporality as an interweaving of past, present, and future. The future in the sense of what is looming ahead, or what is already on its way. What is on its way is the ongoing decay and breakdown of the log, twigs and leaves.