Time and I / Unn Devik
”But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodes in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation.” Virginia Woolf
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As Virginia Woolf describes in the quote above, sourced from the novel Orlando (1928), the phenomena of time, is both wide, and fleeting. Seen In this context, the picture book Time and I explore human made definitions that shape a variety of experiences related to time. In the book, time is described and portrayed as everything from hair, mountains and memories, to the body, clockwork, and the universe. Through short texts, written for the illustrations, the reader becomes part of an internal passage of time, evolving throughout the book. A cycle starts on the first page, and when the final page is turned, another begins.
The illustrations in the book are made using black ink on paper, where some of the motifs resemble woodcuts. As white lines are scraped out, images appear against a black background, images, that further dissolves into landscapes, interiors, and paintings, imitated by diluted ink.
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Artist: Unn Devik
Publisher: Rubedo Forlag
Designer: Rebecca Rui
Year: 2024
Format: 225 × 32 mm
”But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodes in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation.” Virginia Woolf
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As Virginia Woolf describes in the quote above, sourced from the novel Orlando (1928), the phenomena of time, is both wide, and fleeting. Seen In this context, the picture book Time and I explore human made definitions that shape a variety of experiences related to time. In the book, time is described and portrayed as everything from hair, mountains and memories, to the body, clockwork, and the universe. Through short texts, written for the illustrations, the reader becomes part of an internal passage of time, evolving throughout the book. A cycle starts on the first page, and when the final page is turned, another begins.
The illustrations in the book are made using black ink on paper, where some of the motifs resemble woodcuts. As white lines are scraped out, images appear against a black background, images, that further dissolves into landscapes, interiors, and paintings, imitated by diluted ink.
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Artist: Unn Devik
Publisher: Rubedo Forlag
Designer: Rebecca Rui
Year: 2024
Format: 225 × 32 mm
”But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodes in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second. This extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind is less known than it should be and deserves fuller investigation.” Virginia Woolf
——
As Virginia Woolf describes in the quote above, sourced from the novel Orlando (1928), the phenomena of time, is both wide, and fleeting. Seen In this context, the picture book Time and I explore human made definitions that shape a variety of experiences related to time. In the book, time is described and portrayed as everything from hair, mountains and memories, to the body, clockwork, and the universe. Through short texts, written for the illustrations, the reader becomes part of an internal passage of time, evolving throughout the book. A cycle starts on the first page, and when the final page is turned, another begins.
The illustrations in the book are made using black ink on paper, where some of the motifs resemble woodcuts. As white lines are scraped out, images appear against a black background, images, that further dissolves into landscapes, interiors, and paintings, imitated by diluted ink.
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Artist: Unn Devik
Publisher: Rubedo Forlag
Designer: Rebecca Rui
Year: 2024
Format: 225 × 32 mm
