Cumulations - Diana Cencer Garafova

Acrylic on paper/canvas, 2010

Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time)

Time is fundamental for ordinary time-limited human life. Everyday hurry, always “I do not have time”, constantly waiting for something, nothing. Anonymous, banal situations displayed in this series of images lasted only few seconds – too short, impenetrable, fleeting. These everyday situations are going on without experienced even noticed them in particular.

Time wasn’t constant, but the substance, which was purposely destroyed, retarded, cycled. In these paintings I confront the two different times – those few seconds, when the situations had happened and the real, my time, when are the same moments physically performed in the act of painting, lived over again. This manipulation results in the opening of a new “space” which was not observable before – like when we look through the microscope lens, and suddenly we see a brand new reality. It’s not stopping these moments in a static image. By slowing down and continuous addition of new layers allow that primal moment can take several minutes, hours – it can be endless. Everything that’s going on here is just the constantly repeating of the moment, without the start nor the end.