Fragments of past, present, and future in lived experience

FRAMING REALITY is a conceptual illustration that meditates on the phenomenon of time. Seeking to symbolize consciousness and the lived sense of temporality, the work captures a suspended moment, an image of time held still yet always in motion. Drawing on Husserl’s phenomenology, the project reflects on two dimensions of time: the external continuum in which objective phenomena unfold and the internal horizon of consciousness in which time is experienced. Within this inner horizon, past, present, and future are not separate entities but interwoven dimensions, like the memory of what has been, the presence of what is, and the anticipation of what is to come. The image thus frames fragments of this three-dimensional reality, revealing how perception itself constructs the flow of time. Conceptually, Framing Reality questions the tension between representation and experience: how can an image hold the ungraspable phenomenon of temporality? It suggests that time is not merely measured but lived, and that art can serve as a threshold where suspension, projection, and recollection converge. In this way, the viewer becomes implicated in the work, completing its meaning through their own consciousness of duration.

Realized within the framework of the Space in Transition ART’12 Competition, the project positions art as a philosophical inquiry and an attempt to render the invisible structures of temporal experience visible.

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