Time
The passage of time can be seen through a clock, however, experiencing time can be seen in different ways. Every person experiences time differently because they all spend their time differently. My pictures show my passage of time: The sun shining through the blinds of my window, books that I read or reread, and paint building up on palettes.
My first picture is of the sun shining through my window, this is probably the closest picture to a clock. Every day the sun comes up and moves across this window. During the past months out this window, there has been a beautiful day, rainy days, cloudy days, but mostly average. So much time has past but it also feels like none has passed since getting sent home last year. However, I know the world has greatly changed, the pandemic has affected everyone, putting the world on pause.
The picture of my bookshelf also shows the passage of time. Although I would love to claim I read all of them in the past 7 months, I did not, this shelf is a mix of my and my sisters’ reads over quarantine. At first, was going to say reading takes time thus the passage of time can be seen on a bookshelf. But, now I notice something else, most of the books are fantasy. By reading books about a different world than your own you are escaping in a sense. Right now our lives are unpredictable, reading provides an escape.
This last picture I included is of my paint palette with lots of paint build-up. What I like about this is that this isn’t from the past 7 months, the first layer of paint is probably from August 2018 (that is just when I decided to not clean up right after painting anymore). Lots of paint has been added to it because I had so much time to enjoy that hobby, but it is something that didn’t start during the quarantine. Time keeps going forever and although it feels like this part of the time will never end it will. And eventually, it will just be a layer of paint.
Place
This is a map of my current world during the pandemic. I used a mask as the layout of my world because inside the mask is “safe” and outside you could get sick or get others sick. Since the pandemic my world has gotten very small, my grandparents and I are neighbors, our family is in a little bubble so our houses are in the center. The “folds” in the mask act as roads because in the car you “safe” as well. I work in the bakery of a grocery store, and I place that half on the mask half off because for me, it is not a big risk to go, and I go often. On the other side, I put camping. Over the summer our family vacations got canceled so instead we camped different places, I put it half on because we were still on a campground with other people but it was all outdoors. Temple is in the top right corner, and it has the train leading up to it because that is how I get there. Red dots surround Temple because it has become a hot spot for COVID cases. The other side is my older sister’s school, Bloomsburg, they also have a spike in cases causing it to close. I included my younger sister’s, my mom’s, and my dad’s place of work because in my house we are all still working. The bottom of the mask has my friends’ houses who live around me. Everything is connected to my house through the pink dotted lines to my phone, symbolizing how everyone is still able to stay connected because of technology.