T.S aka Bear

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Jul 21, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Capriccio – Vicissitude | Drawing

Intersection The note of vigour swayed and fluctuated along the line of demarcation, which has animated as divers elongated curves over the impalpable succeeded pulsation, and meander through the veil of sensorium.The shades of motion have congealed into varied tonalities and recites a pied ensemble of vitality with arbitrary ebbs.Contours, were gradually afloat ; in […]

Jun 20, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Conceptual sculpture | Interlude

So is every spectacle roving over my mind as my hands engraves, its rhythm recapitulates to weave multiple traces that witnessed time and space were coming into resonance, and, commingled. What sustained, were those fugacious tinctures drifting slowly downwards, and inlaid in my mind. A recollection that riffled with an irregular crescendo, and diminuendo. What […]

Jun 11, 2020Jun 11, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Hot air and Hot-air ballon

A provident expression of visual language with fine and fluent technique, (seems like etching, a good combination with symbolic expression and contrast of tone), indicates the spirit of political scenery during the period of naval race between Britain and Germany before the first world war, a circuital pathway built upon cannons, a race towards the […]

Light painting | Improvisation | © Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] | Year 2020

May 24, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 18:15

May 4, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 17:03

Apr 30, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Membrane – The ebb

” There they were, all ready to teach me their customs and beliefs, and I did not know their language. They were as close to me as a reflection in a mirror; I could touch them, but I could not understand them. I had been given, at one and the same time, my reward and […]

Light painting | Improvisation | © Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ]

Apr 21, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:58

Apr 9, 2020May 14, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Conceptual sculpture | Accompaniment

Nature is such that through the interaction, lucidity flashed at intervals. Reference: Accompaniment Year : 2020 Materials : Soil and raindrops Media : Digital photography

Mar 27, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Duet – Convolution | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on ARCHES watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2020 Price : Contact me for the details.

Mar 23, 2020Mar 23, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Between known and unknown

Humankind forwarding and overcame many unknowns, some remained, some resolved, century after century in a world without visible guiding grid, from clashing stones making fire, migrating from continent to another, a footprint left on the moon, humankind keep integrating and systematizing all kind of experiences, translated into understandable literal, oral, visual information, concluded as true […]

Mar 14, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

vulgar or innovation ?

The differential between collage ( French word, literally ‘gluing or paste-up) and a pictorial puzzle, stated in a way, collage extracting the meaning of a pre-engaged notion and reconstructing in a new relationship with one another, in order to recompose,extend,contradict the dimension of perception through a combination of alien materials, on the contrary, a pictorial […]

Mar 11, 2020Mar 11, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Conceptual sculpture | Rambling

Conceptual sculpture Title : Rambling Year : 2020

Drawings and sketches by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2020 All rights reserved

Jan 14, 2020Jan 14, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Ensemble – Passage | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2020 Price : Contact me for the details.

Jan 11, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:37

Jan 4, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:23

Jan 1, 2020Mar 16, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Visible or invisible ?

‘Order ; Order ; Order’, it’s all about stability, a state of pure reality, a mental image.Piet Mondrian, a dutch painter was born in a time, the cityscape was transformed by all kind of machinery equipments and the sky deducted; sliced by a bunch of higher and wider constructions, steam expelled from locomotive, misted up […]

Drawings and sketches by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2019 All rights reserved

Dec 27, 2019Dec 27, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Reverie – Glisten | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Dec 25, 2019Mar 16, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Duplication ; inspiration or interpretation ?

Edgar Degas was born in a time, which the visible reality can be reproduced and represented through a new technology – photography, though for some pioneer, like W.H. Fox Talbot, photography was considered as a substitute for the traditional painting – a reproduction of visible reality. As a traditional well-trained painter (A term applied to […]

Dec 22, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:55

Dec 15, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:25

Dec 9, 2019Dec 9, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Capriccio – Revivification | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Dec 2, 2019Mar 18, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Wind sculpture No.40 | 4 Mins 5s

Wind sculpture No.40 | 4 Mins 5s Reference : Title : Wind sculpture No.40 | 4 Mins 5s Media : Digital video Full HD in 1080 / 60p Length : 4 Minutes 5 seconds Year 2019 Price : Contact me for further information

Nov 30, 2019Nov 30, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Nocturne – Promenading | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Nov 24, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:18

Nov 19, 2019Nov 19, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Ensemble – Nocturnal | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Nov 14, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 18:02

Nov 8, 2019Nov 8, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Ensemble – Crepuscular | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Nov 3, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 15:15

Oct 24, 2019Oct 24, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Rhapsody – Gyration | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Oct 21, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 17:17

Oct 7, 2019Oct 7, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Capriccio – Concourse | Drawing

Reference : Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper. Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Oct 6, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 16:03

Sep 29, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:01

Sep 22, 2019Sep 22, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:09

Sep 15, 2019Sep 15, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:25

Sep 1, 2019Sep 1, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 17:25

Aug 11, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 17:19

Aug 10, 2019Aug 10, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Rites of Spring

Rites of Spring | The Great war and the birth of the modern age by Modris Eksteins It’s a brilliant old book written by Modris Eksteins. When we reviews the history of early 20th century, about how the first world war happened, and how it has extended to the second, how the civilized world indulged […]

Jul 31, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Encirclement – Rhythm

Reference :Watercolor on Saunders waterford watercolor paper (300 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper.Dimensions : 275 mm x 370 mmYear : 2019Price : Contact me for the details.

Jul 28, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 16:53

Jul 27, 2019Jul 27, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Impression

“All archaeology of matter is an archaeology of humanity. What this clay hides and shows is the passage of a being through time and space, the marks left by fingers, the scratches left by fingernails, the ashes and the charred logs of burned-out bonfires, our bones and those of others, the endlessly bifurcating paths disappearing […]

Jul 21, 2019Jul 21, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 18:06

Jul 14, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 17:20

Jul 6, 2019Jul 6, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 16:12

Jun 23, 2019Jun 23, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 17:09

Jun 7, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 17:01

May 25, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 18:33

May 19, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 17:03

May 5, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:50

May 2, 2019May 12, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Capriccio – Circumgyration I

Capriccio – Circumgyration I Reference :Watercolor on Canson watercolor paper (220 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper.Dimensions : 290 mm x 330 mmYear : 2019Price : Contact me for the details.

Apr 28, 2019May 17, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation

Apr 28, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 18:00

Apr 21, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 19:20

Apr 14, 2019May 16, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 16:42

Nocturne - Glitter IV | Watercolor on Canson acid-free 220gsm watetcolor paper , mounted on acid-free black paper | 290mm x 330mm | Drawings and sketches by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2019 All rights reserved

Apr 13, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Nocturne – Glitter IV | Drawing | Year 2019

Nocturne – Glitter IV Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 290 mm x 330 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Apr 7, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 16:12

Apr 6, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Diversity in black and white | DBW0370 | Photography

Apr 5, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting | Improvisation 17:59

Nocturne - Glitter III | Watercolor on Canson acid-free 220gsm watetcolor paper , mounted on acid-free black paper | 290mm x 330mm | Drawings and sketches by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2019 All rights reserved

Mar 22, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Nocturne – Glitter III | Drawing | Year 2019

Nocturne – Glitter III Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 290 mm x 330 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Mar 17, 2019May 16, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 17:50

Nocturne - Glitter II | Watercolor on Canson acid-free 220gsm watetcolor paper , mounted on acid-free black paper | 290mm x 330mm | Drawings and sketches by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2019 All rights reserved

Mar 16, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Nocturne – Glitter II | Drawing | Year 2019

Nocturne – Glitter II Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 290 mm x 330 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Mar 11, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Merry-go-around

” On the one hand, reality is independent , not necessarily of thought in general , but only if what you or I or any finite number of men may think about it …. On the other hand , though the object of the final opinion depends on what that opinion is , yet what […]

Mar 10, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Nocturne – Glitter I

Nocturne – Glitter I Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 290 mm x 330 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Mar 2, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Circumference

” Abstraction today is no longer that of map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being of a substance. It’s the generation by models of a real without origin or reality; a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, not survives it. Henceforth, […]

Mar 1, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Capriccio – Drift I II| Drawings | Year 2019

Capriccio – Drift I / II Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 210 mm x 298 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Feb 17, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Capriccio – Ramble I II III | Drawings | Year 2019

Capriccio – Ramble I / II / III Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 148 mm x 170 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Feb 8, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Ensemble – Meandering I II III IV | Drawings | Year 2019

Ensemble – Meandering I / II / III / IV Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 148 mm x 170 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Feb 1, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Intonation – Bouncing I & II | Drawings | Year 2019

Intonation – Bouncing I / II Reference : Watercolour on Canson watercolor paper ( 220 gsm ) , mounted on acid-free black paper . Dimensions : 210 mm x 270 mm Year : 2019 Price : Contact me for the details.

Intonation - Penumbra I | Drawing | Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2019 All rights reserved

Jan 21, 2019May 12, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Intonation – Penumbra | Drawings | Year 2019

Intonation – Penumbra I / II / III Reference :Black watercolor on Saunders waterford paper (185 gsm) , mounted on acid-free black paper.Dimensions : 180 mm x 180 mmYear : 2019Price : Contact me for the details.

Jan 19, 2019May 12, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Intonation – Penumbra | Drawings | Year 2019

Intonation – Penumbra |Black-watercolours on saunders waterford paper.

Jan 18, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Contour

” The spiritual world is not a world of unrealised ideals, over against a real world of unspiritual fact. It’s on the contrary, the real world, of which we have a true though very incomplete knowledge, over against a world of common experience which, as a complete whole, is not real, since it’s compacted out […]

Light painting No.6 Intonation-Penumbra 13 Mins 39s | Multimedia art book | Year 2019 by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ]

Jan 16, 2019Mar 21, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light Painting No.6 | Intonation – Penumbra | 13 Mins 39s | Year 2019

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. – Henri Bergson Reference : Title : Light Painting No.6 | Intonation – Penumbra Year Created : 2019 Media : Digital video in Full HD | 1080 / 60P and Photography Limited edition Art book Light painting No.6 | Intonation […]

Jan 8, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Perspective

“Knowledge is ultimate. There can be no explanation of the ‘ Why ‘ of knowledge ; we can only describe the ‘ What ‘ of knowledge . Namely we can analyse the content and it’s internal relations , but we cannot explain why there is knowledge. Thus causal nature is a metaphysical chimera ; though […]

Jan 5, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Position

” In all discussions of Nature we must remember the differences of scale, and in particular the differences of time-span. We are apt to take modes of observable functioning of the human body as setting an absolute scale. It is extremely rash to extend conclusions derived from observation far beyond the scale of magnitude to […]

Jan 3, 2019Mar 19, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Wind sculpture No.39 | 5 Mins 36s

Reference : Title : Wind sculpture No.39 | 5 Mins 36s Media : Digital video Full HD in 1080 / 60p Length : 5 Minutes 36 seconds Year 2019 Price : Contact me for further information

Dec 30, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Three boxes | Documentary | Year 2018

Three boxes | Documentary | Year 2018 | Media : Digital video

Fantasia No.3 - Noctivagant by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2018 All rights reserved | Watercolor and pencil on 300p | gsm Saunders acid free waterford paper | Dimensions : 280mm x 380mm

Dec 29, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Fantasia No.03 – Noctivagant | Drawing | Year 2018

Fantasia No.03 – Noctivagant Reference : Watercolor & pencil on 300p | g/m² acid free saunders waterford paper ( Year 2018 ) Dimension : 280mm x 380mm Price : Contact me for detail

Dec 29, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Rotation

” In order to perceive fullness , one must retain an acute sense of emptiness which marks it off ; conversely , in order to perceive emptiness , one must apprehend other zones of the word as full. ” -Susan Sontag

Dec 26, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting – Improvisation 20181226 – 19:02 in Trio

Light painting – Improvisation 20181226 – 19:02 in Trio Media : Digital photography Year : 2018 Price : contact me for the detail

Fantasia No.2 - Shuttling by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2018 All rights reserved | Watercolor and pencil on 300p | gsm Saunders acid free waterford paper | Dimensions : 280mm x 380mm

Dec 19, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Fantasia No.02 – Shuttling | Drawing | Year 2018

Fantasia No.02 – Shuttling Reference : Watercolor & pencil on 300p | g/m² acid free saunders waterford paper ( Year 2018 ) Dimension : 280mm x 380mm Price : Contact me for detail

Dec 16, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Circle

” Meanwhile science as technique was building up in practical men a quite different outlook from any that was to be found among theretical philosphers. Technique conferred a sense of power : man is now much less at the mercy of his environment than he was in former times. But the power conferred by technique […]

Dec 13, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Composition

” The mind is a kind of theatre , where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass , repass , glide away , and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time , nor identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may […]

Fantasia No.1 - Expatiatory by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] © 2018 All rights reserved | Watercolor and pencil on 300p | gsm Saunders acid free waterford paper | Dimensions : 280mm x 380mm

Dec 13, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Fantasia No.01 – Expatiatory | Drawings | Year 2018

Fantasia No.01 – Expatiatory Reference : Watercolor & pencil on 300p | g/m² acid free saunders waterford paper ( Year 2018 ) Dimension : 280mm x 380mm Price : Contact T.S for detail

Dec 4, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Reflection

‘ If perception are distinct existences, they form a whole only by being connected together. But no connexions among distinct existences are ever discover by human understanding. We only feel a connexion or determination of thought, to pass from one object to another. It follows, therefore that the thought alone finds personal identity, when reflecting […]

Feathering | Drawings | Watercolor and pencil on paper | Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] Year 2018 © All rights reserved

Dec 2, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Feathering | Drawings | Year 2018

Reference : Watercolor and Pencil on paper ( Year 2018 )

Art book - Light sculpture No.26 - Feathering by Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] Year 2018 © All rights reserved

Dec 1, 2018Jun 8, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light sculpture No.26 – Feathering | 7 Min 15s | Year 2018

” Continuity of our inner life, continuity of a voluntary motion which our mind indefinitely prolongs, and continuity of any motion through space ” – Henri Bergson Reference : Title : Conceptual sculpture | Light sculpture No.26 – Feathering Year Created : 2018 Media : Digital video in Full HD | 1080 / 60p and […]

Nov 30, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Voyage

“We live under the shadow of gigantic question mark. Who are we? Where do we come from? Whither are we bound? Slowly, but with persistent courage,we have been pushing this question mark further and further towards that distant line, beyond the horizon,,where we hope to find our andere. We have not gone very far. We […]

Nov 29, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

The sight

” If the eye is required to look at an object placed too near to it, it cannot judge of it well – as happens to a man who tries to see the tip of his nose. Hence , as a general rule, Nature teaches us that an object can never be seen perfectly unless […]

Dithyramb No01-Interfluent | Drawings | Watercolor and pencil on paper | Tiong-seah Yap [ T.S aka Bear ] Year 2018 © All rights reserved

Nov 12, 2018May 12, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Dithyramb No.01 & No.02 | Drawings | Year 2018

Dithyramb No.01 – Interfluent Reference : Watercolor & pencil on 300p | g/m² acid free saunders waterford paper.Dimensions : 280 mm x 380 mmYear : 2018Price : Contact me for the details. Dithyramb No.02 – Erratic Reference : Watercolor & pencil on 300p | g/m² acid free saunders waterford paper.Dimensions : 280 mm x 380 […]

Nov 9, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 09:15

Nov 6, 2018May 16, 2019TIONG-SEAH YAP

Light painting | Improvisation 11:46

Oct 29, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Vision

“What I call depth is either nothing,or else it is my participation in a Being without restriction,first and foremost a participation in the being of space beyond every particular point of view.Things encroach upon one another because they are outside one another.The proof of this is that i can see depth in a painting which […]

Oct 29, 2018Mar 18, 2020TIONG-SEAH YAP

Conceptual sculpture | Object 32 | TS20181028-01

OBJECT 32 | TS20181028-01 REFERENCE: YEAR 2018 (MIXED MEDIA) DIMENSIONS:CA. 168 X 168 X 28 MM ( CA. 4.25 X 5.98 X 0.23 INCH ) Price : contact me for further information

Oct 27, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Dimension

“The ridiculous and amazing mistake people make is to believe they use words in relation to things. They are unaware of the nature of language – which is to be its own and only concern , making it so fertile and splendid a mystery . When someone talks just for sake of talking , he […]

Oct 27, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Pulsation

” There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound ‘ – John Cage

Oct 21, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

The concept of Nature

” It is an exhibition of the process of nature that each duration happens and passes. The process of nature can also be termed the “passage of nature’ . I definitely refrain at this stage from using the word ‘time’ , since the measurable time of science and of civilized life generally merely exhibits some […]

Oct 19, 2018TIONG-SEAH YAP

Duration

” Real duration is experienced ; we learn that time unfolds and , moreover , we are unable to measure it without converting it into space and without assuming all we know of it to be unfolded “ – Henri Bergson –