Protention Series (2014)

As Gilles Deleuze said, moving image is the image of time. I feel the perception of the present is like the touching point of a phonographic needle placed on a vinyl record; my gaze scrapes into the eternal recurrence, scratching through the grooves between retention and protention embedded in experience of duration. I examine the presence of time as an inspatial entity that exists in notions as continuous elaborations of past-present-future, both in a personal and social context. Intrigued by the stability and stillness of natural forms and temporal events that break in or lay on the relative balance, I use natural forms and daily scenes symbolically in my practice as a metaphor of the pure form of the immutable change and movement.

The series of Protention is an ongoing project since 2014. I use camcorder photographically capturing still scenes that composes regular or accidental events interplaying within the frame –a metaphoric portrait of time and being. is named after Edmund Hussel's phenomenology of perception- the 3 key aspects of which are retention , the immediate present and protention, meaning our anticipation of the next moment.