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print this pageThe Marches: A Photographic Labyrinth of Time, Memory, and Absence.
Terry Ratzlaff
Saturday, October 21 - 9:00AM to 10:00AM
RM 905
Inside Arp Clock and Wood Shop, time takes on multiple forms: time accumulates like layers of dust. Or time, Barthes wrote, is like a spiral; "things recur but on another level, nothing is first, but everything is new."
On April 7, 2023, after 18 months of collaboration, horologist Greg Arp died. Through our work together, we sought to understand better how humans attempt to construct and control the experience of time. Working with recovered and recycled detritus as subject matter, I use cyanotypes, gum bichromates, and photograms to create serial and repetitive assemblages and artist books. My eclectic process mirrors the polymathic nature of Greg's process, where different hats are worn, and the refutation of obsolescence resists the authority of time. Throughout this process, I understand the clock shop as a labyrinth-like archive; an infinite space of memories within memories, time within time.
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