Time and Time Again is an acknowledgement of ‘prison time’, a syncopated, far from linear, often backward, often frozen, overlapping, discombobulating, blurring, penetrating experience. For those who are incarcerated, time is as present as the ground under foot, but as shifting and unsettling as a mountain of sand. Visually this piece is a clock, but as it’s made from very thin sculpted paper and only made visible by its shadow, it evokes the fragility of time and time’s spectral presence in prisons.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition I will be reordering the numbers of the clock to reflect the stories of time shared with me by prisoners. Sometimes disordered, sometimes fast, sometimes backwards, sometimes stuttering or suspended in time.

Photographed by Tod Jones courtesy of IKON Gallery