Time Spores

The past can enter the present so vividly that memory and immediate experience briefly become hard to separate. Time Spores captures the strange familiarity of returns, déjà vu, and time refusing to behave like a straight line.

We imagine time as a line, but experience does not always follow that order. A scent, a sound, or a sentence can open an old memory so vividly that the past briefly returns to the present. Time Spores compares this experience to spores carrying a trace of something older into new places. Every return takes a slightly different form because it reaches a different person at a different moment. Déjà vu opens the feeling that a situation has happened before even when we cannot say when. Beginnings and endings draw closer, and the present begins to sound like an echo of something still searching for its place in memory. Time Spores allows time to unfold in loops and returns. The past remains a living part of how we hear and understand the present.