Part II of my Sequences series still sets out to document the passing of time but this time through exposure photographs, experimenting with two to five second shutter speeds, capturing fleeting moments and short intervals in an attempt to understand and depict the notion that "what we perceive as present occurs over an interval." The ghostly blurring of the figure as they walk up or down the stairs depict a moment but not necessarily the present.
For me personally, I find that the most accurate depiction of 'now' in photography are the ones that are blurred due to the motion of the subject. Like the character Nao's (from Ruth Ozeki's A Tale For The Time Being) observation of 'now' never truly being now but has actually become 'then' in the time you recognise it as now, motion blurred photography is like capturing multiple nows-turned-thens attempting to truly capture now.
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