What’s wild about focused attention is that the act of observation is implicitly timeless. A little dose of time travel. To look closely you must be present. And the more present you are, the more you move outside the boundaries of time.
John Ruskin proposed that we seek two things of our buildings. We want them to shelter us. And we want them to speak to us – to speak to us of whatever we find important and need to be reminded of.
“The trilogy doesn’t explain time; it lets it settle. Its method leans into phenomenology without naming it. Time isn’t an external measure, nor a device to pace the plot. It swells and contracts with the characters’ movements and emotional weather. In youth, it feels open and elastic. In early adulthood, it begins to fold around choices already... See more