Poster series: Time Is Our Teacher
Time Is Our Teacher is a sequence of posters centered around the concept of time. Various aspects and phenomena of this all-knowing force are illustrated to encourage viewers to reflect and gain insight from different perspectives. To create unity, each poster includes the title of the series, which also functions as a slogan. This approach fosters a sense of cohesion, similar to the covers of books or magazines.
"Inevitable": A three-dimensional hourglass illustrates the flow of time. The title "inevitable" highlights the inescapable passage of time. The sand represents both the movement of time and the finite nature of human existence.
"Learn From It.": A fictional sundial references the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, where the explosion froze city clocks at 8:15 AM. A lighter shadow represents the sun’s natural light, while a darker one marks the atomic blast’s impact.
"Paperplane": A satirical critique of authoritarian control over personal freedom. A command forbids letting a sheet of paper "fly," yet the recipient defies this by folding it into a paper plane, symbolizing the right to choose how to spend one’s time.
"Pressure": A clock under immense pressure, seconds from breaking, illustrates the stress of modern time constraints, especially in work and academics, leading to mental and physical exhaustion.
"Simultaneity": Depicts the theory that past, present, and future coexist. Three perspectives show a person crossing a street, visually demonstrating how time is relative to the observer.
"Size Matters": A life-size fly at the center of a clock represents how time perception varies across species. Flies process visual information faster, experiencing time more slowly than humans.
"Tesseract": A hypercube represents time as the fourth dimension, exploring how modern physics and theoretical discoveries challenge our understanding of reality.
"Transience": A lighthouse symbolizes stability yet reminds us of impermanence. Compared to the universe’s vast timescale, human existence and even seemingly solid structures are fleeting.
"When Are We": Inspired by Einstein’s relativity, this piece highlights the difficulty of defining time, as it depends on the observer’s position in space and motion through the universe.
