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The three walls of the exhibition are painted black. There are three, large, abstract, circular charcoal drawings, one framed on each wall. There is a circular projection on the floor, projected onto a white, wooden platform. In the projection, the drawings are spinning very slowly, morphing into one another. There is a dark and ethereal mood to the space..

There Will Be No End: An Exploration of Time

Sophia Bentley

Undergraduate
There Will Be No End: An Exploration of Time is an experimental installation that fuses abstract charcoal drawing and projected forms of visual poetry. As an exploration of time in relation to indefinite cycles, the work exists as three stages of being: the incubation, the happening, and the deterioration to be reborn. Through conveying a conflict between time as both ephemeral and infinite, the work creates connections between physiological existence and the theory of a cyclic universe– a constant return to the beginning. Time is suspended when engaging in the physical drawing process which becomes a form of meditation, a liminal state of its own. Control is turned to the subconscious mind through repetitive action and movement. Process over outcome. Under this altered state, life has no beginning nor end. It exists as an eternal cycle of death and rebirth. A continuous breath. Inhale. Exhale. Over and over.