Idea 1: I think that our perception of how much time we have available can be dependent on how tight of deadlines we have ahead. When we have no deadlines to complete anything, there is this freed up space/time that seems much bigger than it did beforehand.  What I made here is a person sitting at a desk with a stack of papers. the stack is connected to this big weight of “deadlines.” As he completes more papers, the weight moves upwards, freeing up more “time.” Eventually the weight is all the way up, and there is plenty of time. When he gets mail again, the cycle repeats.

The way a coffee shop looks throughout the day can tell a lot about what part of the day it is. You would see a large crowd inside here in the morning, then it gets a bit quieter. Around lunch there is a rush of people again, gets quiet, and then again is busy after dark when people come to do work. Overnight, it is completely empty and dark. The next day it repeats.

This idea has more to do with our perception of time. There are studies done that talk about how different animals may perceive time differently than us, based on how quickly we all process the events and images around us. So I wanted to make a sketch that was based on the relativity of time. In this sketch, I am making time dependent on the speed of moving from point A (an outside image) to point B (being processed in the brain). The rate at which this image is processed, as it moves throughout our sensory input and is interpreted by the brain, can kind of create our perception of a “moment” in time. Time can often move slower or quicker based on what we are doing/how engaged we are. So as this processing rate changes, so does how quickly time appears to move.