Aspects and Elements of Time

In an art piece, time isn't just a representation of moments passing through a duration of minutes and hours. Time reveals to an audience many aspects of an art piece by creating relationships with the viewer. Relationships such as various emotions, places, and meanings. Not only is time effective in three dimensional art, but also in two dimension as well. Although in a two dimensional art piece, the subject is set in a specific place, there are ways in which time is represented in the picture. Depending on how the artists chooses to represent time whether through place, historical references, motion, etc.; time is not only restricted to video art. Time can also be applied to sculpture. Again, time can be represented based on the artist and how he/she wants to represent it. According to "Aspects and Elements of Time," it states that a ceramist is able to embody time by inviting the audience to slowly examine a piece which in turn allows the viewer to take his/her time to rotate the form. It is stated in the reading however that though time is important in both two and three dimensional art, it is especially important for photographers, videographers, book-makers, and filmmakers.

In photography, photographers need to capture a certain moment in time in order to represent the subject in the way he/she wants. For a book-maker, he/she needs to be able to manage time in a story so that the audience will still be able to understand what is going on in the story without having it end too short to spread out too long. Videographers and filmmakers need to be especially conscious of time because like book-makers, he/she needs to make sure there is just enough time to represent the story. Like the photographer, filmmakers and videographers also need to capture the right image to represent the story that is happening during the amount of time set for the piece.

Though time is an intangible force, it is a force that is intertwined within everything that one experiences in an art piece. In a film, the setting, the objects, the actors, and the sound all relates to time. These elements of a film adds to the viewer's understanding of the time and what is happening at that time.