Choices- The River Of Time

Artist Statement:
A choice. What does it mean to make a decision? What is the difference between a decision and a choice? Henry Smith in this article: “Fact, Definition, and Choice” talks about living your life as a pattern that’s already laid out. Each choice is the first step to a ripple effect based off each decision. Life already comes with a set of blueprints. Our “cause” and “effect” factors. When one action is made, it usually has a guaranteed outcome. But what about the choices that aren’t so black and white? The simple day to day actions. Waking up, returning that missed call, to cook breakfast or not to cook? Caroline Miles Hill refers to choice as a
problem. She starts off by talking about the fact that making decisions isn’t always an easy thing to do. No decision is disconnected. Where does choice begin? Decisions are choices turned into actions. So is a thought a decision? Does the action change the confirmation? And if it’s as easy and changing a thought, how does that affect the rest?

To stop and think about the part time plays in decision-making the articles are endless. If you were to take every action into consideration and think about all the other choices that were possible and not taken, how much different would the outcome be? “In order to find an approximate answer to the question, what conscious motives will influence a choice between two things differing slightly?” A line taken from Caroline’s study on “Choice”. We are inadvertently shaping our own timeline flow. It’s almost pointless to think about all the other routes through time we could’ve taken, but at the same time, how much different would things have been? It was very difficult to find anything on parallel universe. However in my own concepts of time and choice and very intrigued to explore the parallels of these parallels.

Visually, my plan is to take this concept of choice and visually represent the pathways through life each decision can take you. What would this “problem of choice” look like? And how could time and space illuminate each choice? Our choices are like reagent and time like a reactant. Visually, this reaction and it’s consequences will be illuminated through some form of illustration.