This Space is for Time Out of Lost Time

2022
Maria Baker and Luke Degnan
Mixed Media, series

Signposts as seen through timecard cut-outs.

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Escape Through the Gaps in the Timecards [Use as Frames]

2022
Maria Baker and Luke Degnan
Mixed Media

Timecard frames for viewer participation

After a long year in our respective desk-jobs we found ourselves finally with less structured time in nature (at the Swimming Hole), and we noticed that our need for the speed of productivity didn’t just drop with our geographic relocation from (home)office to nature. The residue of job-work and the promise of creative work didn’t alternate swiftly.

Had we forgotten how to be untethered?

We created frames out of cardstock timecards by cutting parts of the preprinted grid. We then used the frames as viewfinders and found signposts in relation to the framing. The objective was to explore these frictions between “time on” and “time off” (Which is in focus? Which seems reachable and real?)and to probe their almost impossible coexistence in our work-climates of rapid response requests.

We further investigated the collision of office work and nature by photographing the frames held against the landscape. A selection of the corresponding images are printed on matte photo-paper with a standard ink-jet printer and meant to be mounted with binder-clips to re-connect them to their (now altered) office DNA.

The timecard frames we cut and used are meant for viewers to experiment with: What can you see (and perhaps document) through the time-card frame?