Is this the Time? (1991) 10 negatives
From Hags book ‘How Things Are’ (Edited 2026)
The clock ticks with our evolutionary progress as a species. Our clocks – we made them – we defined this time. The universe has another sort of time, space-time, the fourth dimension, energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The speed of light is only a conversion factor, it is a constant no matter how fast anything is moving like converting mph to kmph, converting time to space-time so Mass = Energy as Albert Einstein first showed.
Will we reach enlightenment before we destroy the systems that we rely upon to survive? War, famine, pollution, are they not expressions of paranoia, greed and our egocentric ideas of consumption in order to create happiness. Movement is a property of time – how much movement do we have left?
Original proof for the R.K.H. Ltd advertising image. (1990)
Three photographs were commissioned on the theme of time to Advertise TSMS (Television Sales & Marketing Services UK) who sold commercial TV time slots. It was a national campaign with full page adverts in national papers as well as trade magazines and of course a TV commercial.
I returned to this image and made Spilling Time. View here.
The distortions of the hanging clocks were created digitally. The heavy retouching especially on the butchers face was to compensate for the poor paper quality and course screen reproduction commonly found in the national press in 1990. It was standard practice.
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Created by Hag without the use of a computer by Combination printing.
Collage Montage Surreal Photography.
