He was like time

He Was Like Time is part of the body of work In Between The Lines, which explores the spaces between words, moments, and memories — the pauses where meaning exists but is not immediately visible. In this work, fragments of handwritten text are layered repeatedly to form a dense visual surface that, from a distance, appears abstract and structured, but up close reveals itself as a field of language and time accumulated through writing.

The geometric fragments in the work function like broken moments, scattered memories, or pieces of time that cannot be reassembled into a single linear narrative. Each shape contains layers of text, suggesting that every fragment holds a story, a conversation, or a memory, even if it cannot be fully read. The black spaces between the fragments act as pauses — silences that separate one moment from another, one thought from the next.

The title He Was Like Time refers to time as something present yet unreachable — something we try to follow, hold, or understand, but which constantly moves ahead of us. The work reflects on the human desire to pause, to hold onto moments, and to understand time through memory and language, even though time itself cannot be stopped or fully grasped.

In this work, text is used not only as language but as texture and image, becoming a record of repeated writing — a mark of time passing. The work becomes less about reading and more about sensing time visually, where fragments, pauses, and layered writing together form a surface that behaves like memory itself: partial, fragmented, and always shifting.

He was like time | Ink and collage on wasli paper | 38 x 58 inches | 2017