Texture of time

Abstract

Texture of Time is an exploration of my personal experience of time, lensed through my own body, arguing that time is a personal experience measured through various facets. Three bodies of work display time: one through the lifetime of a menstruating individual, one through the physical experience of my own sexual partners in conversation and mourning of my mother’s, and one displaying the entirety of my journaling practice bookended by attempts at my own life. Each of these pieces mark different chapters in my timeline. These reflections of timekeeping are created through a varietal mix of media, including: cast glass menstrual cups, a bronze death mask, linen-sheet tapestries, video projection, and representational ceramic tubes. The works explore a variety of personal lived experiences including: suicide and self-harm, sexual experiences and the relationship between a mother and daughter beyond the vale of death, the natural rhythms of menstruation and how time can be measured.