Time map book
Time Map Book assignment Time Class new school November 29th 2020
Time Map Book assignment Time Class new school November 29th 2020
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Central Nervous System Time-Map
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Table of Contents
Page 1- Introduction
Page 2- Artsist statement
Page 3- Image documentation
Page 4- Artistic influence
Why I chose the concept: Central Nervous System
time-map measured through tourettes
I was diagnosed with tourettes when I was 8 years old: My time
map concept is one that felt like the most natural thing for me to
do not only because this concept is the main way I perceive and
measure time but also because this is a means of expressing my
psychological experience of time and how it has developed over
my life.
Facts about the disorder
“Tourette’s syndrome is a neurological disorder characterised by involuntary movements
and verbal outbursts, which affects around one in 100 people. Multiple genes contribute to
the development of the disorder but these can differ between individuals, many of whom
frequently exhibit other neurological disorders including attention deficit disorder and
obsessive compulsive disorder. These factors have made it difficult to identify genes specifically
associated with the development of Tourette’s syndrome.
NRXN1 and CNTN6 are important during brain development and produce molecules that
help brain cells form connections with one another. In addition, the two genes are turned
on in areas that are part of the cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical circuit, a loop of brain cells
connecting the cortex to specific regions involved in processing emotions and movement.
Studies suggest that errors in the circuit may play a role in Tourette syndrome.” Information
from: Tourettessyndrome.org
Artist statement
My physical time map aims to achieve mapping time through
my different motor tics.
The frequency of the tics is always changing depending on
many different factors such as stress.
The way I measured:
I sat down to do 60 minutes of work on an essay and decided I
would record each time I would have a tic movement.
I have different type of tics in my neck that are 5 different
movements I usually do- I recorded how many times I did
each type of move- each movement defined by a colour.
Throughout the course of 60 minutes I had 147 twitch movements.
I had roughly the same amount of each differnt type of movement
5 different type of tics-(5 colours)
147 occurrences
60 minutes
The colours: blue, green, red, purple, orange.
Physical manifestation of map:
I took a small stretched canvas and separated the canvas from
the frame. I took 5 pins in the different colours attaching them
to different parts of the front of the canvas, and 5 threads of
yarn in the same colours. I wrapped the yarn in different directions
around the pins- made it so that the total times the
five threads of would wrap around a different pin would add
up to 60. So each piece of yarn would wrap around a pin 12
times.
I then took the canvas that I ripped off and drew circles in the
different colours for each time each tic. My tic movements
happen in a cycle so I had the exact same amount of each tic.
29 times Of each tic.
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Artistic Inspiration: Mathew Wong
Mathew Wong was a young painter
that I have known and loved for a
couple of years. His dreamy and mystic
lansdcapes in oil are beautiful works
of paintings. They are 2-dimensional,
however they still have an amazing
sense of depth and mystery to them.
There is great detail that goes into his
works often applying pointilism. His
work has been extreemly visually interesting
to me because of the balance
between chaos and tranquility. The
dots can imply repettive disruption
while the loose brushstrokes give me a
sense of peace and tranquility. The balance
is phenomal and the beauty of the
landscapes are inspiring. When finding
out about his death in the Spring of
2019 I started heavily researching him
looking at everything I could find. I
read that he had tourettes and OCD,
when I read that it was like an epiphany
that perhaps explained the narrative
soff some of his work and thats when I
felt a true sense of conncection to it. It
made perfect sense to me, the balance
between the chaos and tranquility
almost ffighting eachother. When I
started thinking about the time map
I started looking through a lot of his
works and ultimately found this.
Written and produced by Edward R-L
The reason I found this peace particularily
inspiring with regards to my
time map is the use use of pointilism
throughout but in differrnt colours inspired
my dots on the canvas. The path
in the middle is a linear progression
of time as the charcater in the centre
in this case myself makes his way
through time. The road is windy and
every changing. The tics are sometimes
better, sometimes worse. This piece in
particular even though not his most
beatiful, really spoke to me as a time
map of identity in its own sense and
inspired my ideas for the
two main factors of my work, the tics and time. The path representing,
time and the dots representing the tics and the person
representing me. I love how this piece may be looked at completely
differently depending on wether you know he had tourettes and
deping on wether you have tourettes yourself.
The constant battle between peace and chaos where only one thing
is innevitably certain; time moves on.
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