time ART - Nomura Hitoshi

I chose a piece that was recently on display for the MFAH show, For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979.

The piece, Time on a Curved Line (1970) is by Nomura Hitoshi, was in this exhibition and included 34 large format gelatin prints which were hung in a grid pattern on the rear wall of the exhibit. Hitoshi "sculpts time" by investigating his physical interaction within an environment or landscape. The artist would write the date and time on a road, photograph it, and then continue along the curved line of the road until he could no longer see the painting on the road-- at that moment he would do the same thing again in that spot.

I think one of the most interesting aspects of this piece is how according to the position of the sun the viewer is able to see the hand of the artist in the form of his shadow.