Time is the wind
posted by rr on 21 March 2010

After our meeting last week Leena told me that the phrase Time is like a ship that never anchors that I´ve seen in a book about the Sami tradition is related to the Sami that lived near the rivers (she concluded it by knowing where the author of the book come from). She said that in the area we are, is most likely that the time is like the wind. She mentioned the spiral when we were talking, what really got me excited since Smithson has been an artist that understood time in a way that interested me and was very relevant for my research during my PhD and still is until now. At least in one point Leena and me have agreed from the beginning: there´s no way to understand time disconnected from space. And www and all new technologies are not an excuse for that if we can go beyond the stereotype of being connected as a synonym for being "nowhere and everywhere at the same time". After all these years trying to understand how people differs and have points in common, we can do better than this. Let´s just not believe the (theoretical) hype.