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Time Passes

Jamie Hanson

Digital Artwork

September, 2024

United Kingdom

"Time Passes" (2024) by Jamie Hanson is a digital artwork, a collage of photographs and drawings made by using Photoshop and InDesign. Hanson, who often responds to mirrors and windows in his work, uses these reflections as frames to reveal a wider and wilder world beyond the domestic interior.

In "Time Passes", a convex mirror reflects the sunrise over Newlyn Harbour and Mount's Bay in West Cornwall—a place deeply meaningful to Virginia Woolf. The mirror captures a quiet moment at dawn, a time when most people are still asleep.

The artwork gains emotional depth through the inclusion of Virginia Woolf's final handwritten note to her Leonard, positioned as a backdrop to the mirror. This thoughtful combination of personal history, symbolic reflections, and serene imagery offers an inspiring homage to Woolf’s life and work. Hanson's title engaging in dialogue with "A Sketch of the Past" and To the Lighthouse gives this homage a very rich texture.

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