TIMETime. The fourth dimension, its always there, ticking away, we can measure it and use it to help us, but most of us don’t know a lot about time, when we think deeply it is an almost impossible concept to grasp; what is it and when did it start? Time gives us our days and our seasons, our past and our future, our world record sprinters, and our everyday routine. We rely on our clocks to keep our world running efficiently, so we can be ‘on time’ to school and so we know when to catch the next train. With time comes age, maturity, and eventually death, it is a seemingly eternal constant throughout our lives. This makes time extraordinary, yet it is also something which we take for granted; an everyday part of all our lives. Ever-present but generally overlooked time can change a landscape in a way nothing else can.The theme of time can be interpreted in many ways; I could look through history and produce pieces relating to events of figures. I could look to the future like George Orwell in ‘1984’. I could observe and examine the ways in which age affects the human or affects a landscape or cityscape; for this I could use techniques such as time lapse or the overlaying of many images to show the passage of time in a scene.

LANGUAGEThe theme of language first presented itself to me when researching the structure and vocabulary of this expressive tool as it manifests itself in the modern day world. Language is all around us, it is said that the need to create language is deeply embedded within all of us as it is our primary means of communication. When we think, we speak in our heads and when we talk we have the ability to convey deep feeling and express ourselves vividly. But languages have evolved differently an we have hundreds of different and unique languages, alphabets, symbols and phrases which leaves us with many barriers, impeding our communication but also immense diversity and culture. Throughout history people have told stories, which stir up emotion and create intrigue as well pass on knowledge and morals.Language is ordinary, for we use it everyday and are constantly immersed in it yet the way we can manipulate it as well as the its variety, shape and structure make language truly extraordinary. It is possible to turn a story or piece of writing into a piece of art either by extrapolating upon themes within the text or by shaping the language to form shapes and communicate different ideas.

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