The subject of my residency was Change in Our Reality and over the last few days I was fortunate enough to capture and witness an amazing and profound event which was very appropriate to my residency. These dynamic natural transformations are so slow that humans cannot perceive them they are extremely small increments of change over long periods of time. We simply do not have the organs to detect change which occurs at such a slow rate however I was able to capture this change with the use of digital technology.

For a period of 2 days I had a camera pointed on my Hibiscus plant and recording an image every 80 seconds. The resulting images were compiled into a 47 sec movie showing transformation which is far to slow to detect with our normal everyday perception. These changes in reality are in extremely small increments over long periods of time, hence they cannot be detected with our eyes. I have incorporated a fractal overlay to emphasize cyclic nature of this change.

I often wonder what the refresh rate of reality is? How often it updates it’s self? I’m guessing it depend what you are looking at? Consider taking two images of the same scene say a millionth of a second apart, is there any difference in the images? If the images consist of dynamic and fluid elements like clouds, water etc, then the difference may be apparent otherwise we would consider them to be essentially the same. Reality appears to be solid, static and stable however what drives it is the phenomenon of impermanence and change.

The subject of my residency was Change in Our Reality and over the last few days I was fortunate enough to capture and witness an amazing and profound event which was very appropriate to my residency. These dynamic natural transformations are so slow that humans cannot perceive them they are extremely small increments of change over long periods of time. We simply do not have the organs to detect change which occurs at such a slow rate however I was able to capture this change with the use of digital technology.

For a period of 2 days I had a camera pointed on my Hibiscus plant and recording an image every 80 seconds. The resulting images were compiled into a 47 sec movie showing transformation which is far to slow to detect with our normal everyday perception. These changes in reality are in extremely small increments over long periods of time, hence they cannot be detected with our eyes. I have incorporated a fractal overlay to emphasize cyclic nature of this change.

I often wonder what the refresh rate of reality is? How often it updates it’s self? I’m guessing it depend what you are looking at? Consider taking two images of the same scene say a millionth of a second apart, is there any difference in the images? If the images consist of dynamic and fluid elements like clouds, water etc, then the difference may be apparent otherwise we would consider them to be essentially the same. Reality appears to be solid, static and stable however what drives it is the phenomenon of impermanence and change.