I am but a fleeting moment: Autobiography of an artist
My interest in timelines started in 2020, when I began to actively use it as a tool to understand the pillars of my art practice, including my motives, inspirations, influences, milestones, and past choices. Timelines can be a great tool to understand why things happen and when. A timeline is a graphic representation of events in time. It uses intervals, and can start and end at anytime. They can be personal, historical, or anything that show information during the passage of time. Fortunately the pandemic allowed me to slow down and reflect on my evolution as an artist, by starting to visualize my own timeline. But also, the pandemic forced us into a reality that is unreal. It pushed us into experiencing a collective timeline like never before. Can reality unreal itself? Reality is shaped by an Infinite number of past-present-and-futures, that can accommodate all possibilities. These past-present-and-futures are called a timeline. Memories from a previous timeline are being carried over into the one we're in now, and we are shifting timelines more often than not. Many artifacts of these anomalies are left behind for us to remember and recall these fleeing moments. Memory has been central to my artistic and personal explorations. I have been excavating my artifacts, and collecting them as records, evidences, and references. I put them together in a form of an autobiographical visual narrative that describes my art practice. I created a hyperlinked PDF with an evolving linear timeline that starts from my birth, taking the audience on a cyber journey through my life, like a treasure haunt, a nostalgic time warp, or a space to unreal this reality.
