Past and Present / How to translate time to topology

 

"Past". Saying it in another way, it is "closed time".

 

We can see the past from various perspectives. The face of it would look different depending on the perspective. But the events of the past will never disappear. We can see them again and again, but never change them.  The "Past" has no future to change itself. It is closed tightly and eternally.

The "Past" would repeat forever. It is a different time from the present. We need to go down to a different time to encounter a "past" that is still repeating in itself, closed tightly.

 

"Past" is closed in a circular ring. In the annular space, what happened is waiting our visit to happen again. Our time is also annular but opened to present scene. Two of these different time, past and our time, must encounter each other. For the encounter, two of different rings must cross each other.

 

We designed a huge circular ring as an exhibition space. Now we call this ring "Doughnut" after the shape. "Doughnut" is filled with past time. Another ring is a finer bore. We call it "Tube". It comes from our time through the present landscape to encounter the "Past".

 

The two rings, "Doughnut" and "Tube", topologically interlace.

"Tube" runs outside of "Doughnut" with a view of the landscape of Gdansk, then gets inside, runs in "Doughnut", finally come out of it and back to time of Today.

Two rings have the same "doughnut hole" in common.

This topology will clearly show a relationship between present and past.

Visitor can directly feel the relationship through the experience of topology.

 

"Closed time" must glitter. It has no hole so can perfectly reflect our world. We design the surface of the "closed time" with brass. The surface will reflect the light even in autumn and winter. We will know what glittering means. War time must be inside of the past, forever. If we can seal it off, future will appear outside of it.