The Timekeeper’s Meditation

For Mind the Gap at the Hyde Park Art Center, I curated The Timekeeper's Meditation, a performance by Lindsey Barlag Thornton that explored the relationship between objective and subjective time. Drawing on Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition as a point of departure, the work centered on a one-hundred-pound block of melting ice, the artist's sustained meditation, and the measured passage of hours. The gradual transformation of the installation made time itself tangible, inviting viewers to experience duration as both a physical process and a psychological condition.