This project investigates whether temporal change can be represented spatially rather than sequentially. Instead of showing day and night as separate moments, the same location is reconstructed as a simultaneous temporal field in which multiple times coexist within a single frame.
Research Question
Conventional imaging records one moment from one viewpoint. This work asks: can different temporal states of a site occupy the same spatial coordinates without losing legibility? The project tests whether time can function as a spatial attribute rather than a narrative progression.
Methodology
Aerial videos were recorded along an identical flight trajectory at different times of day. The sequences were spatially aligned and temporally decomposed. Select architectural regions were masked and recombined so that distinct temporal conditions — daylight and nighttime illumination — appear simultaneously within a stable camera path. The edit is therefore not chronological but cartographic: time is distributed across space instead of unfolding along a timeline.
Findings / Contribution
The resulting image behaves less like footage and more like a temporal map. Instead of documenting change, the video visualizes duration as a spatial structure. The project suggests an alternative role for moving image: not recording events in time, but organizing time within space.