About Drift theories
In 1912 Alfred Wegener presented the first version of what would be known as the ”Continental Drift Theory”
The idea that the continents once were joined together but had drifted apart and spread throughout the globe. Space together with time had up until then, been considered fixed variables. But if space drifts, does that mean that time drifts as well?
What if the fixed variables of time would drift. What if they already are? What if time drifts and moments don´t flow chronologically? What if time drifts from it´s own axis and skips moment like an epileptic fit? What if there is a reason to why it sometimes feels like time passes slowly and sometimes faster. What does it look like?
Most importantly,
Can you capture it in a picture?
Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in Cubism´s third principal manifesto that the Cubist work ”endeavored to find an aesthetic form that could encompass, at the same time, one glance in the past, the present and the future.” On a cinematic roll of film there are frames that separate each captured moment. It´s a representation of the flow of time but with black frames that shatter the flow of the moments.
My images are images from in-between those frames and the transition from one moment to the next is visible. They are made with traditional analogue technique and are motion pictures in one single still image.
But is the flow of moments constant? Or is it drifting? Is it in the transition that the true now reveals itself?
These are images from 5 continents Once joined together they have now drifted apart. A drift not only in space and time but also from what we from the beginning thought was the absolute permanent…