Limitless Time and Ever-expansive Space: Sun Xun’s Time Spy at Times Square, New York
By Scott Norton
Installation view of SUN XUN’s Time Spy at Times Square, New York. Photo by Charles Roussel. Courtesy Sean Kelly, New York.
In a crowded space, the sensation of time passing can expand and contract wildly. Tense amongst the clamor, the beat of one’s heart may begin to race, distorting the natural syncopation that dictates anything from the rate of one’s breath to the pace that one walks. Seconds, minutes, hours bleed into one another. As the mind becomes a dizzying array of vectors, so too does its relation to space and time.
