Time isn’t linear

—it folds, echoes, and decomposes

Viewers often describe the temporality in my work as “dreamlike,” “like it ended before it began.” It wasn’t until I read Joshua Foer’s A Minor History of Time Without Clocks that I understood: I’m not just editing video—I’m building a timeline that the viewer must emotionally decipher. There is no clear beginning or end—only fragments that feel out of sync.

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Giorgio Agamben once wrote: “To be contemporary is to perceive the darkness of one’s own time.” I love this. In my AI images and collage compositions, I’m not just mixing time periods—I’m making it impossible to tell whether an image is from the past or future. Some visuals look like the future’s past, others like the past’s future. The ambiguity is the point.

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi said: “The word ‘future’ no longer represents hope, but anxiety.” That one line changed how I edited Who’s There? I thought I was editing “a dream of memory”—but what I was really doing was piecing together the ruins of a future we were promised but never reached.