My sustained investigation focused on confronting my anxieties about time passing. I aimed to portray the fleeting nature of time and how being aware of one’s limited lifespan can bear emotional consequences when trying to create new memories and experiences. As a teenager, I often feel pressured to grow up too fast and wanted to express how this leads me to hold onto childhood nostalgia and live in the past instead of making room for the present. Through my investigation, I explored themes of life/death, contrasting the impersonal nature of time with personal perceptions and worries about it.

This body of work used a variety of mediums and techniques to highlight aspects of anxiety about time and explore time’s limitations. This can be seen in Image 1, with clocks looming over the subject. Notions of nostalgia, refusing to let go, and trying to keep memories alive all developed in Images 3-7. This transformed into acceptance of time passing in Image 8. Inspired by Dali, it shows the awareness of time consuming the eye. This shifts to the impermanence of life altogether in Image 15. Here the eternity of space contrasts with the ever-recognizable symbol of youth, the daisy.