The Evolution of Time

Time is evolving as much as we are.

Is time only relative to the numbers we've selected to convey its duration and fragmented increments? Maybe. Is its meaning and value captured best in the changing visual symbols we've designed or chosen to express its functional reflection of order and repetition? We know that there is a sort of length of our existence leading to our mortal death, and we’ve counted and recorded that by how many times the sun rises and sets, the cycle of transmutable seasons, the swing of a pendulum, the sands of an hourglass, on the hands of modern clocks, etc. examples of how people in the past calculated what we now consider time. That time is a sort of current, a cyclic one on a clock (which just mirrors the sun) that we’ve created for ourselves to provide us with a “future." It is a strong current, because technically we haven’t been able to forge the stream back to the past; we have to move forward with it.

The body also has an internal biological clock that keeps a periodic rhythm from day to day which adds to our conceptualization and perception of time because it regulates and alters by means of the senses, such as sight.

The face of time is ever-changing. The visual representations and symbols we use exemplify our past and current technological advancement and our evolving ideas of time and how we choose to measure and understand it.

Time is alive, but our depiction of it is transitory and as mutable as humanity. When and how it started may be as mysterious as human life, thus its visual involvement in our culture and daily lives helps to sustain its significance and purpose.