The wait

The Wait reflects on the psychological experience of waiting — a condition in which time becomes heavy, slow, and extremely visible. Waiting is a moment in which nothing seems to happen externally, yet internally everything is in motion: thought, memory, anticipation, doubt, hope.

By reversing the direction of the clock, the work disrupts the familiar and mechanical understanding of time as something that only moves forward. Instead, it suggests that during waiting, time does not feel like it is moving forward at all — it feels as if it is turning back on itself, repeating, stretching, and folding inward.

Placed in the corner of the exhibition space, the work exists slightly outside the main viewing area, much like waiting itself — a condition that exists on the side of events, not at the center of them. Waiting is never the event; it is the space before or between events.

Within In Between The Lines, this work considers waiting as a psychological space where time, memory, and anticipation begin to overlap. In waiting, the past is remembered, the future is imagined, and the present becomes almost unbearable in its slowness.

The Wait is therefore not about time moving backward, but about the way time behaves in the human mind when we are waiting — when seconds expand, moments repeat, and time refuses to move in the way we expect it to.

The wait | Found wall clock altered to work anticlockwise | 12.6 x 12.6 inches | Edition 1/3 | 2017