Tearing in Time #11

In the video series Tearing in Time, ice blocks melt into water trails across varying environments. This process of melting and re-solidification suggests an eternal cycle without beginning or end, where dissolution and flow connect the microscopic and the macroscopic. Inside the ice, there is a world of images that do not belong to the time of melting—thousands of weather patterns generated by Stable Diffusion, moving rapidly within the frozen boundaries. From sweeping clouds to sudden wildfires and ash, the planet’s climate as understood by machines is tucked into a machine-generated process of melting.

The artist layers the geological time of melting ice, the algorithmic time of machine learning, and the medial time of the looping video. As these times overlap and wash into one another, they gently tie human emotions to the natural water cycles of our planet.