Chasing Time
An Artistic Journey of Healing, Creation, and Emotional Expression
” Chasing Time” is an artistic project delving into my personal emotional connection with time. As time passes, I face fears and anxieties regarding aging and the passage of time every day. This project aims to bring together personal emotions and elements of time through the metal technique of chasing(repoussé) to explore emotional healing, regain creativity, and renewed my understanding of time.
The word chasing, that will be my primary technique in this project, is not only a reference to my desire to capture time but also the name of a metal craft technique, that involves pushing up and down metals by hammers and different kinds of punches.
The starting point of my project was simple, I want to express my fear of aging through an installation, but it kept evolving throughout the making process. So, this project was completed in collaboration with time itself. It transitioned from unilateral pressure to maintaining a delicate balance between me and time.
The installation consisted of three parts: a water dripping devise, one large copper bowl covered with faces representing various emotions, and a water container.
Time, copper, (2024). 54 x 48 x 25 cm
The water droplets, representing time, the water will eventually fill the copper bowl, which symbolizes human emotion, that sinks to the bottom of the tank.
Me, copper, (2024). 49 x 49 x 10 cm
Chasing Time – Death. It’s a visual object of my fear of aging.
