TENSES
2017
LENTICULAR PRINTS
20 x 24 INCHES
EDITION of 5 + 1AP
Tenses is a study of lexical ambiguity, conceived to test points of transition in time and space.
Utilising the unique properties of lenticular printing and the viewer’s own dynamic movement, each print cycles through a set of linguistic tenses – showing (PAST//PRESENT//FUTURE), (YESTERDAY//TODAY//TOMORROW), (BEGINNING//MIDDLE//END) depending on the viewer’s position in relation to the work.
As the viewer moves the tenses move with them and in-between there is a ‘ghosting’ –– where one word overlaps another conveying the conceptual indeterminacy that is bound to such fixed states of being. Tenses asks us to question: When does the present become the past? When does today end and tomorrow begin? And what do we call that space in-between –– before one is determined as a consequence of the other?