Idea

This project grows out of a reflection on time not only as something measurable and external, but as something shaped through perception, attention, and relation. Outside us, there is change. In us, that change becomes time. Presence alters that condition.

Philosophy

The work departs from the idea that time is not a stable, external flow that we simply move through, but something that appears only in relation to a being that is aware of its own finitude. Time, in this sense, is inseparable from perception, attention, and the awareness that it will end. Presence does not add time, nor does it slow it down in any objective sense. It reorganizes the way time is experienced from within. Under conditions of sustained presence, time ceases to function as a sequence of measurable units and begins to appear as a continuous, self-contained field. What becomes denser is not time itself, but the intensity of its perception. The work insists on this distinction: objective time remains unchanged, while lived time acquires a different structure, rhythm, and weight through presence.

How the work is conceived

Two large spheres are positioned opposite one another. Between them lies an invisible field. When a person enters that space and remains within it, the field gradually intensifies: warmth rises, sound softens, light gathers, and visual waves begin to appear around the body. What changes is not objective time, but its perception. The longer presence is sustained, the more perceived time shifts from ordinary passage into a denser and more vivid duration. When attention breaks or the body leaves, the field recedes and time returns to dispersion.