The Space Between: A Pocket Universe is an ongoing body of work in partnership with artist Suman Chandra. The vessel for this project is a small, sandy island in West Bengal, India where two companions discover each other beyond superficial notions of identity, merging within a barren, yet malleable landscape through observation, conversation and a series of visual and embodied gestures. Our work touches up on themes of self-discovery, the cosmos, quantum physics, and even natural resource extraction after illegal sand mining operations began scooping away the island, one lorry at a time, and we found ourselves questioned by the local sand mafia.
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{an erasure poem sourced from The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli}
the slowing of time
detected between
two friends
years later, one has lived less, aged less
his clock has oscillated fewer times
his thoughts have
had less time to unfold
—–+—- more time —-+—–>
—–+—- less time —-+—–>
Time passes more slowly in some places, more rapidly in others.
someone understood
a century before
that the sky continues beneath our feet,
the Earth turns.
the moon
and
humankind
do the same
****************************************************************************
sun and
Earth attract without touching
each acts on
what lies between space and time
space
immersed in
time influences
the movement of bodies
toward each
other
float without falling,
run down the beach,
observe
where
time passes more slowly for your
feet than for your head
**************************************************************************
see with the unhinged eye
ten thousand dancing Shivas
transformed into
stars
*
* *
a quantum phenomena of
subatomic particles
according to the order of time
indicate time
with the letter T
two friends meet up again
Which of the two tells the time?
Neither truer than
the other
just *two* times. Times are legion.
Every clock has its
own rhythm
time melts into
time
Physics does not describe how things
evolve in time but how things evolve in their own times,
how
the world dances