No(w) Now by Ravi Avasti

Imagine that an alarm clock has been turned to face the wall. The electronic digits on the face of the clock shine onto and illuminate the wall. As the time on the clock changes, so then will the light cast onto the wall by the clock. “The Current Time Displayed as the Value of Light From a Seven Segment Display” is an accurate timepiece that gives the time in the form of that light cast onto the wall. As the formation of the clock digits follows an entirely different logic to the sequence of the digits, the time is displayed in a nonlinear manner. The clock is readable with practice, but on occasion we must wait for several minutes to establish what the time was: ‘now’ can only be read with reference to the past.

If Cherry timber is exposed to the sun’s light, the processes of decay will darken it over time. By co-opting this phenomenon to create an image, the act of decay is becomes one of creation, and continued decay through exposure to the sun’s light gradually erases the ephemeral image: ‘now’ can only be read with reference to the future.

* ‘Now’ is a term we use to indicate that we are referring to neither before nor after this current time. However, the point between what has happened and what is yet to happen does not really exist: even if we look very closely, down to time quanta, it becomes clearer that ‘now’ remains a boundary, a moving point between all things that can happen (or all potential) and all things that have happened (or all experience.)

ARTIST TALK: THURSDAY 15 JUNE from 4-6PM
Come along as Ravi Avasti speaks to the origins and development of the work in No(w) Now, his working methods and material explorations. All are welcome.