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Fluid Time (2014)

Yves Maurer
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Fluid Time uses multiple images over time to make a time-lapse into a single image. The camera is on a tripod and takes regular photographs while the scene changes. Then the resulting image is constructed by taking the top line from the first photo, the second line from the second photo etc. This means that time elapses from top to bottom in the photos, with the top being older than the bottom. You can see that well in the images where I am coming out of the house. The feet have gone further (are more recent) than the head.

The technique is called slit-scan photography. and it allows you to compress multiple time-points and through moving objects, multiple view-points into one image. Mirrors and glass are especially interesting since you can smoothly deform them and they look like they could exist in that form, but do not.