These objects take on an anthropological meaning and pull at our heartstrings to remember objects that were once familiar to our everyday lives. Fact or fiction, his writing encourages the reader to stop and reflect on her own memories and how they may shift from reality to dream-state, past to future. Time is defined by its measure. Our quest for the precise time of day may go down in history as the greatest obsession of the twentieth century. Bruce Cannon's work incorporates noetic time-that which is measured in terms of human life.
Noetic time is defined by birth and death and by our linear life experiences.
These sound bytes describe moments in time that are relevant to everyone, yet different from person to person. Tongsue Ly measures time through the weaving of a spider web-or rather, through her string sculptures. Here, the timelessness and cycles of nature are called into question, as a spider's overnight weaving might question how long one has been sleeping. In nature, time weaves a complicated and nonlinear path, always changing, always moving. Our obsession with absolute time, atomic time, and the acceleration of time affect the way we experience time-the way we experience our lives.