Date of Award
Spring 6-1-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Photography
First Advisor
Brian Ulrich
Second Advisor
Jocelyne Prince
Third Advisor
Santrupthy Das
Abstract
This is a collection of essays documenting my grappling with the idea that time is always in motion. When you say now, it is not now anymore, but we are still in now, a new now. How can I stay in the now without being swept away by the current of time? Describing a film by Ozu Yasujiro, Deleuze writes, “The vase in Late Spring is interposed between the daughter’s half smile and the beginning of her tears. There is becoming, change, passage. But the form of what changes does not itself change does not pass on. This is time, time itself, ‘a little time in its pure state’: a direct time-image, which gives what changes the unchanging form in which the change is produced.”1 I want to be this vase. I want to be time itself. I started walking slowly to see the change in time, the change in my body, and the change in myself. I am becoming.
Recommended Citation
Asano, Dai, "I am becoming." (2024). Masters Theses. 1251.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1251
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