From my perspective, there appeared to be the double responsibility to not only acknowledge the uniqueness of the moment as a point of embarkation, but also, to offer some rumination on events having already passed. Therefore, I decided it was necessary, curatorially, to address the issue of time. With little more than an intuitive grasp on the subject, I brought together seven artists, whose unique insights allowed this exhibition's concept to fully materialize. I have great confidence this accomplished group will offer some compelling, alternative frames of reference for considering the role of time within our somewhat temporally confusing present.
Time remains constant, but the cultural attitudes that perceive and identify it continually change.
This group of artists belongs to a transitional generation who came of age at the onset of the telecommunications boom. They remember, with some maturity, life prior to automated bank tellers, word processors, pagers, cell phones, library databases, the world wide web, and the score of other technological developments that have so altered collective notions about time, speed, accessibility of information, and physical space. Because that transitional period has been so central to this generation's development, there is a poignancy with which it regards time and related issues. That poignancy is evident in this exhibition through the artists' conscious efforts to make time physically manifest in the objects and images they present. One of the primary conflicts of contemporary living is the feeling that time has become too compressed.