DOUBLE TIME
7” x 120 foot long concertina book of drawings and photographs
In 2015 seemingly random appearance of double time on my digital devices became too frequent to ignore, so I began to record each incident by screen capturing or photographing the time. Late in 2017, I noticed my disrupted sleep-waking patterns had increased to the point it felt like my ability to sleep had halved.
One side of the book is devoted to double time incidents, while the reverse is a continuous drawing in ballpoint pen, a visualization of my troubled sleep lines. The lines follow the shape of myself sleeping and are arranged in a graph-like manner describing my haphazard sleep-wake-sleep patterns.
Before the advance of digital technology and the internet, looking at someone’s watch or clock might not have been considered intimate or an invasion of privacy. While these screen captures seem innocuous, they represent a personal look into my life for the last 3 years. The images include texts to friends and family, crossing my father’s death, travels, correspondence, steps taken each day, through to my phone telling me I have not drunk enough water.
The concertina book is 120 foot long, a 3 dimensional artifact of these intangible, fleeting and completely random moments, when I happened to look at a device and it was showing double time. The images are arranged chronologically from June 2015 to November 2018 raising questions for me about how we experience time.