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Time
Snail
Music by Philip
Glass: Koyaanisqatsi (organic)
Our environment,
absorbed in images transcending at great speed, causes amongst other
things, a sobriety of the creative-imaging mind. |
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the same time, the ability to know when to dive deeply into the
moment flashing by, stopping the inflation of images and focusing
only on this specialm longed for moment the moment in which the
flow of time stops and recycles into a memory, is also hurt.
In the video work, there appears on the screen a sort of raw magme
of snails, moving in a way barely seen or noticed. This is in fact
a metaphor dealing with life's rhythm and its different ingredients
; indensity, a feeling of distance, speed, slowness – slowing
down….
In other words, the form of observing in which time is flattened,
monotonous, lacking lyrics, almost without action – regardless
of an awarkened internal life, is actually the protocol of banality.
The snails horns that have eyes at their ends are also activated
in a slow motion forwards and backwards. The are a realization of
what Freud wanted to express when he connected the sight and the
action of sensing, whilst attempting to sample the outside world.
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