Flowing into a reservoir of time

So “A Reservoir of Time” will be happening. Came up with this idea more than a year ago, did a quick and short writing, gathered some friends, and did a proposal.

Missed out on it last year but the idea was always stuck in my mind; slowly swishing, taking shape, morphing, evolving… still in flux now, but it will eventually manifest itself half a year later.

22nd June 2023

Starting this to hopefully record my journey of curating my own show for the first time, how the ideas continue to develop; the processes of working with the artists, the organisation, and the mentorship; the challenges and the epiphanies; the stories and memories; and the time, the time that takes for all of these to come into reality.

Just watched John Berger’s “About Time” to hopefully prepare my mind better in looking at time, or thinking about looking at time.

A beautiful visual essay by Berger as usual, as I’ve already experienced his brilliance through “Ways of Seeing” and “Understanding a Photograph”. Berger’s way of seeing things is so detailed and so thoughtful.

Storytelling, dreams, different timescales, mortality, promises, drawing, music, and so much more — Berger so effortlessly and naturally touches on different subjects and how they associate with the way we think about time, expanding our perceptions of time in the process.

It’s quite a bit to unpack, and it’s also given me quite a bit to think about with respect to how I wish to curate the exhibition. And I shall look back at this weeks and months later, even after the show has opened, and get some sense of how it might have contributed to how the exhibition turns out.

Till next time.

6 August 2023

How time flies and I actually forgotten about this. Something I started with the intention to record and document my thoughts and processes (the time I spend to develop an exhibition about time), got lost to time and busyness, how ironic.

Met the mentor as well as the artists, been having things in my head for quite a while, also completed Berger’s “What Time Is It?”; but…