About 85% of my close friends don’t live in Canada.
Let alone this continent.
Half of our conversations revolve around one simple question -
“What time is it where you are?”
Promptly followed by “Why are you awake”? But I digress.
Bridging physical distance and it’s subsequent time differences through large scale photographic prints on canvas, ‘WTIIWYA’ is an exploration of our everyday moments in time.
This piece sets out to bridge distance by combing ‘the time where you are’ into a mock panorama with the time it is here in Toronto.
(e.g 3:08PM here, versus 8:08PM GMT)
Asking friends that live across the globe to send photos in response to the question ‘WTIIWYA’, I have taken a photo of where I am in Toronto at that exact time and combine the two into the print you see now. Viewers will be able to step into that moment - that exact minute - from two sides of the globe and experience it at once, for as long as they like.
Like having a window into the moments shared from apart.
‘WTIIWYA’ is a minuscule dive into the moments that make up our lives, often unnoticed and experienced alone.
No matter how far, the passing minutes remain the same.
And in that moment, we were together.
Distance be damned.