Time After Time
Time after Time is a series of three hand-crafted artist’s books, each measuring 42cm x 182cm. The books illustrate selected elements of the extraordinary social, political and environmental global events that occurred between 2016 and 2021, events that are bookended by the presidential elections in the United States of America. The books also include more personal narratives and corresponding macro, micro and nano discoveries that situate our human concerns with a broader context of existence and offer a sense of scale, perspective and connection.
Time After Time 2016-2017
Time After Time 2016-17: Plate 1. Tree of Life / Knowledge / remembering Alan Kurdi / Engare Sero 100s of human footprints 19000 years old / Blue Marble / Brexit / Jubilee flotilla with Vikings / Greenland shark 400-years old / Tim Peake / Comet 67 and Rosetta crash / David Bowie / Prince / fish communicate in dialect
Time After Time 2016-17: Plate 2. Aquarius rescue ship / Aquarius constellation / 10579 people die in the Mediterranean / Syria / Gaia’s 3D map of the Milky Way / Zika virus / Trump / giant panda species recovery/tiger numbers recovering / helium reserves discovered / universal literacy one generation away / death in childbirth numbers halved since 1990 / hottest September day on record / Earth has two moons.
Time After Time 2016-17: Plate 3. Heart-shaped shadow discovered on Pluto / remembering Jo Cox/dinosaurs discovered to have feathers / Boris Johnson / remembering the 72 victims of the Grenfell Tower fire / gravitational waves from black holes colliding / Juno spacecraft revealing Jupiter / India opens the World’s largest solar power plant / Paris climate agreement / Dolly the sheep’s genomic clones / Tayshan Haydon-Smith footballer and Grenfell gardner
Time After Time 2016-17: Plate 4. India plants 54 million trees / North Korea missile tests / Malala UN messenger of peace / Carbon in the atmosphere 400ppm / Larson C iceberg / largest prehistoric crocodile remains found / Nebra Sky Disc - the earliest depiction of the skies / life on earth may have begun with biogenic particles / arctic and Antarctic ice volumes fall / Cassini spacecraft/image of Saturn and earth/spinach leaf turned into human heart tissue / Proxima Centauri has Earth-sized planets / Whanganui river conferred the same rights as humans / France, Germany and Bulgaria ban fracking / Trump / Me Too / remembering Carrie Fisher and George Michael
Time After Time 2016-17: mock-up of artist’s book