More Folding

When in think of folding creating dimension, I cannot help but think of the theoretical wormholes in space. Wormholes are basically shortcuts (or folds) through time. These folds in time add a whole new dimension to time. No longer would time be a linear thing progressing only in one direction, time would be three dimensional and would only exist. To me this would eliminate the idea of progression in time, and things moving forward. It would be evidence that everything that exists has existed forever and will exist forever in this new, undefined dimension.

This image shows how the fold in time/space creates new dimensions. The wormhole affecting dimensions.

Folding- tissue growing video

The video that you posted about the regenerative capabilities that the human body has is right down my alley. I am a biomedical engineering student so this kind of stuff is really interesting to me. What is amazing to me is that the magical powder that they use to regenerate tissues is nothing more than a natural component of everyone. You and I have "extra cellular matrix" surrounding much of our cells. This is simply connective tissue made of sugars and proteins. It is amazing to me that something so simple can lead to such profound clinical implications.

I have often wondered what the limitations of the human body are. We do not currently have a complete understanding of the power of stem cells. In theory, these cells have the capability to become any part of any tissue found in the human body.

I'm sure many of you have seen the photos of the rat with the replacement ear growing on its back:


How will we set limitations on the use of such powerful entities. The moral implications that follow this topic are overwhelming.

Single Rose Video

The blog was not accepting all of the video files at once so I've added this one of the rose individually here.

Project

As I stated previously in my posts about my project, I investigated framing mechanisms on how one can capture time. This was an attempt to further understand how things exist in time and space. The idea was to explore a way to frame a certain period of time that has elapsed in a manner that allowed the viewer to understand what has occurred over that period. I have always been fascinated with images that show change. I developed images that are composed of multiple images that were taken over the period of a couple weeks. The end product actually contain over 20 images each.

From these images I was able to construct small, time lapse videos that show the change as well.

The first one here is of a flowing blooming.




The second of is an ice cube melting into a shot glass.





The Melting Ice Cube



This is a video compiling 12 consecutive videos of the rose opening.