RECEPTION:
February 11, 2023 from 6pm-8pm
ON VIEW:
February 11, 2023 to March 25, 2023 - Saturdays from 12-4 PM
Proof of vaccination and masks required
Time itself shifted during the pandemic. My effort to collect timepieces from the community and build us a time machine started before the pandemic, continued through it and now onto the other side, as the world continues to shift, and as time marches on - sideways, upward, forward and back.
Time is everywhere and nowhere at all - personal time, pandemic time, carved out time, geologic time, borrowed time. Take a moment and consider the memories, lifetimes and echoes these timepieces have absorbed and represented, how many pairs of eyes have glanced or stared at them anxiously, joyously, or with deep exhaustion or fear. And how in doing their silent and diligent work, these little feats of engineering accompany us as they track our lives, our memories, our joys and our sorrows.
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING FOR BORROWED TIME
The following programming will accompany this show. All programs take place at the Washington Street Art Center Gallery.
Artist/Curator Talk with Bess Paupeck
Saturday, March 4, 2pm
Join the artist/curator behind Borrowed Time for a conversation and walk through the installation-exhibition, and hear more about the process behind the community-sourced time machine.
Songs in Time with Rich Thomas
Saturday, March 11, 2pm
Experience soulful and transformative music by Rich Thomas
Horology + Art: Talk with horologist Bob Frishman
Saturday, March 18, 2 pm
Join local horology expert and scholar Bob Frishman as he discusses the presence of clocks and watches in examples of fine art from the past seven centuries.
Closing Celebration: A Community Talk-In
Saturday, March 25, 6pm
Hear stories about the objects that make up the installation-exhibition Borrowed Time from the community of people who loaned their time.
Artist Statement:
Bess Paupeck is a curator-producer-artist and maker of interdisciplinary experiences that forge connection to community, self, story, and our shared humanity. Bess lives and works in the Boston area and over the years has worked with many cultural institutions, including the Somerville Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Science, Somerville Arts Council, Harvard, MIT, and the Nave Gallery. Living life as a work-in-progress, a love for making, experience building, arts production, curating and community engagement come together in the offerings she is so deeply grateful to create and share with others.