The Powers of 10 ...

exploration.

Project Statement ::

When zooming in and out of objects and places, one can also consider zooming in and out of time, bringing the past into the present and future. One may also say that time is relative, it only exists by the way we define it. My project symbolizes time jumping out at you, breaking through the glass, and free from the restrictions that we give to it. Time is stopped as it chaotically releases.

inspiration

painting by : salvador dali

Project Summary ::

While watching the film Powers of Ten, and zooming in and out of the outer reaches of space, I was instantly reminded of an Astronomy lesson I had last year. My professor broke the existence of our universe down into a single year, where the Big Bang took place on the first second of January first and present day would be the last half-second on December 31. If you were to look at time in this way then all of mankind, from the evolution of monkey to man, would have taken place in the last ten minutes of that year. When looking at this calendar one realizes that time is relative and how do we know that time is real? We think it’s real because we say it is, but there is no true way of knowing. Furthermore, as you fly outwards into space you see our Earth rotating once every twenty-four hours and revolving once every three hundred and sixty five days. How can you know that this is even true? Now if you zoom even further away from our planet we can view our entire solar system, a massive spinning ball. How fast is this traveling, how long does it take to get from one spot to another? We made up time and it only exists because we say it does. There is no real way of estimating it. This project reminded me that with design there are no restrictions. There is no right and wrong answer. “Design from the heart and happiness will follow.”