Imitating episodic time through kinetic sculpture

My compositions on paper use an established lexicon: wild animal, seed, and desert landscape to present a narrative. While I strive to suggest elements of time and narrative, my 2D art is static. In my new, sculptural work, I explore episodic time, how humans track the order of events. Dr Edvard Moser’s research theorizes humans record and process episodic time in multiple areas of the brain, creating a sense of time being both linear and circular. To explore episodic time, I place my symbols on the surface of glass and ceramic kinetic sculptures making them permanent. Honey is used as a preservative and medium inside the bodies of the kinetic sculptures. The honey suspends the internal objects; as the sculptures move, the changing positions cannot be repeated, therefore, disrupting the static permanence of the sculpture. Thus, my work explores the ways in which episodic time can be imitated.