Toni Pepe

To Speak Another Language of Time is an ongoing body of assemblages made of found and original newspaper and snapshot photographs, 19th and 20th-century ephemera, lenses, and prisms enclosed or supported by wooden structures whose shape mimics forms of time. I am investigating time as material – what does it mean to flatten, unfold, curl, or bend time? How does the photograph symbolize and act upon time (i.e., to freeze, hold, abstract)? This work complicates the idea that time is linear and moves forward toward an ever more perfect future by underscoring cycles, repetition, and time's symbolic and psychological representations. Recent Supreme Court decisions and other political events, for example, have revealed that the future is not necessarily bound for progress.