Retrospective Time Perception x our memories

How much time was it since the pandemic started? I was thinking about this question a lot when the one year of Covid19 remembrance was taking place and it inspired me to do further research about how the retrospective time awareness works in human brains. The answer I got was: The more memories, activities and arousal happens over a specific period of time, a person will retrospectively perceive this period as much longer taking. In fact humans can be more than inaccurate in time awareness. These principles inspired me to look at a previous work, where I looked at offsets and perspectives of tori in P5.JS during the project "Web Fundamentals" and finally choose it for the final refinement.

In my current work, I try to combine visual informations of my life background throughout this year that were affecting my vision. These were mainly online inputs such as web pages, social media or literature. I have used the experimental sketch of rings as a graph indicator of "time quantity" and refined it as a set of analogue clocks that are randomised by every click and can be stretched by the use of a slider or controlled by buttons. The dependence of the remembered time on our memories and activities fascinated me and inspired me to create a pseudo-infographic web presenting time as a much more relative quantity. Time was speculated to be the more human-centred value and therefore the "retrospective perception of time" is linked to the personal experiences of the time spent. My aim in this work is to show the malleability of time and use the metaphor "time stretching" as a relevant indicator of a well respected quantity. Therefore, to disrespect it.