Right Place, Right Time

These images explore the idea of time by showing how the same location can look very different at different times of day.  In the post "Zona Spirit," the image of the mall with almost no one around is covered by a partially transparent picture of the mall during game day.  The resulting collage displays the difference in atmosphere between the empty mall and the lively mall covered with tailgaters and fans.  Similarly, the post "Passerby" has an image near Old Main when almost no one is around overlapped with an image of the same location between classes, when the campus is alive and people are hurrying from place to place.  Finally, the post "Class Time Motion" has an image of the lecture hall for ARE130 30 minutes before class when there are very few students overlapped with a partially transparent picture of the same lecture hall when class has just been dismissed.  While the first image, like in the others, is quiet and peaceful, the overlapping image depicts motion and liveliness.

The purpose of these posts is to show the influence time has on this world.  It is entirely beyond our control yet it affects when we do things and how the world appears to us.  If a visitor to the UA mall saw the picture of when hardly anyone was around, they would have a very different perception of the location than if another visitor saw the UA mall two hours before kickoff.  By merging the two pictures of the same location at different times, this blog highlights the stark contrast between an empty location and a lively atmosphere, but also shows the areas in between as nothing in the combined images is completely clear.