We are so often pressed for time.

We talk about spending time, buying time, saving time, but rarely do we really experience time. In my practice, I try to create spaces where time can slip from its entanglement with capitalist extraction. But as a being living in and bound by time, it is difficult for me to really see and understand time. To do so, I rely on material processes that reveal the residue of time through slowness and attention.

Tending pooling layers of medicinal pigments, or the cracks woven into clay through cycles of watering and evapouration, I sit with Dōgen’s words, echoing to me from centuries ago:

The whole existence, the whole universe, exists in individual moments of time. Let us pause to reflect whether or not any of the whole of Existence or any of the whole Universe has leaked away from the present moment of Time.

June 2021