Tag: time

Time, Space, and Unbelonging: An Online Conversation with Kay Sohini, 27th October

Mechanical Dolphin

“They say that time heals. But in my experience, grief slows down time. It interrupts the directional, linear way we perceive time.”

What special relationship does the comics medium have to time? How do comics-making and comics-reading affect our own experience of time? And what might the future hold for comics?

On 27th October, I’ll be joining researcher and comics creator Kay Sohini for “Time, Space, and Unbelonging”, a one-hour conversation which forms part of the 2024 Thinking Through Drawing event.

This year, the theme of Thinking Through Drawing is “Marking Time”: find out more about my session with Kay, and the wider event, which includes online and in-person gatherings, here: https://www.thinkingthroughdrawing.org/ttd-24-marking-time.html

Closing the loop

Mechanical Dolphin

It’s the last of three pieces about films and time. There were some words about visions of an endlessly repeating day; some words about the immeasurable season of grief; and finally, some words on breaking the cycle – or closing the loop.

At the beginning of Karyn Kusama’s Destroyer (2018), a woman wakes in her car beneath an L.A. underpass. With the shuffling gait of the walking dead, she heads to the concrete banks of a storm drain, where a crime scene has been established. The detectives already present are dismayed at her arrival. “This is handled,” they tell her – but the woman, their colleague, insists on knowing the details.

A man has been shot – his blood has run into the drain and is darkening in the light of a perfect California day. There are stolen bills, stained purple from a dye pack, pinned beneath the body, and a distinctive tattoo of three fat black dots on the back of the victim’s neck.

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