Not Really Now. Not Anymore

This  work is concerned with temporal boundaries; the shifting sense of what is now, and the idea that the elusive present acts as a boundary between the past and the future. The phrase "Not really now. Not anymore" was a piece of graffiti observed by the writer Alan Garner, which he said inspired him to write his 1973 novel Red Shift. The book deals with overlapping time strands, parallel narratives, the past inhabiting the future, and vice versa. 

The wall mounted piece uses paper and handwritten text, both tools we use to capture a fleeting thought in the moment. The folds and facets allow each piece in some sense to look forward and backwards simultaneously. 

The text is wrapped around the 3D pieces, the idea of "now" always appearing and almost immediately disappearing out of view. They could be way markers, or surveying poles, used to mark out routes, boundaries or terrain. They are presented as leaning against the wall to suggest a mobility - that they are there "for now".