Chapter I · Time
What is time for?
On lingering, inhabiting time, and letting an experience take as long as it needs.
Byung-Chul Han’s The Scent of Time makes me want to relearn the art of lingering: to let a conversation, a piece of music or a landscape take the time it needs.
A walk or listening to a record can be worthwhile in itself. I want to make room for that time, without needing to justify it through productivity or profit.
I place that book beside Theo Angelopoulos’s The Dust of Time. The film moves through lives shaped by memory and history. Together they leave me with a question: how can time feel inhabited?
I would like to pay more attention to the life happening now.