The Colours of Eternity

“Just imagine you go to the beach and you're watching the waves rolling in and you think, a wave, it's a short-term thing, it's ephemeral… but then you think, that these waves have been coming in and breaking on this shore for millions of years… longer than there have been any humans around. So that actually, to attune your consciousness to the waves is absolutely not to be caught in that present moment, it's to see that in that present moment is a whole eternity… Stop thinking in terms of nested scales of time, and see how every moment is a moment of beginning for the world as a whole.”

—- Tim Ingold in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, General Ecology, Serpentine Galleries, London, December 5, 2020.