"Time" is a photograph taken on a very serene beach Anse Lazio, on the island of Praslin, Seychelles in March of 2018.
The small islands in the middle of the Indian ocean do, in person, feel as isolated as they really are. On every beach there is an overshadowing primordial jungle behind you, the vast ocean in front and the perfection frozen in time in between in the form of pristine beaches with the, meticulously sculpted by nature, granite rocks.
The 2 rocks in "Time", and the third one barely seen drowning in the ocean, are shaped by time and stretch it at the same time. They have been there for as long as the islands exist on the forefront of the relentless ocean waves and time with them.
The water blurs as time passes, equalizing into an almost flat plane. The flatness of the water is time, time is flat and endless as the water of the ocean. The waves of time can just barely be seen washing over the beach blending into the island, its effects continuing past the waves. As time stands still you can best feel the passing of it and its indifference. The only things worthy of affecting time are the granite boulders who have stood its test. Time is stretched between them, lightening and flattening even more. What the rocks are, in fact, is ideas. They are what matters in the flatness... they are created, shaped and are the only things that affect the waves of time hitting the island thus shaping the island itself and anyone who steps foot on it. The ideas echo in the perfectly flat sea of time, older ones are overcome by it but the new ones rise from the ground in front.
The desire to capture this photograph came months before from a dream. The essence of the image from the dream was the feel and atmosphere that was pre-envisioned then later experienced and the idea that came from the surreal feeling of the timelessness of the islands, the endlessness of the ocean around it and the connection between the two.
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