DeepTime Collective
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Amanda Evans
Tia Kramer
Work
Time is a Potato Rolling Down a Hill
2026
Performance and drawings
Collaboration with Ms. Sarah’s 3A Art Class at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School in Portland, OR
Solo exhibition at the King School Museum of Contemporary Art
If time were a shape, how would you draw it? How does the shape of time influence how we imagine ourselves within social and ecological communities?
During our residency at KSMoCA, we wanted to investigate how communities measure time and how we physically feel minutes, hours, days, and years.
We asked third grade students, “What is the shape of time?” Students then made abstracted drawings that visualized their vision of time as a dimensional force. We used their drawings to direct performative movements scores, which led to the co-creation of short performances throughout the school’s campus.
We led discussions on how communities and cultures throughout history have measured time. We led exercises that heightened awareness of how we physically feel minutes, hours, days, and years. We also asked students to draw specific shapes of time: the shape of time for an ant, the shape of time during the last minute of the school day, or the shape of time when you are bored.
What resulted is a series of drawings and performances, documented through photographs, that illustrate non-linear shapes of time. The perception of time as a unidirectional line emerged in the 19th century in response to colonial and capitalist conceptions of time. Before then, time was conceived of as a variety of other shapes and dimensions. Through this project, we hoped to learn from one another about nonlinear ways of conceiving and existing within time.