museumuesum:
Duane Michals
Now Becoming Then, 1978
gelatin silver print with hand applied text, 11 x 14 inches
(Now Becoming Then): When I say “This is now;” it is not now. There is no now. It appears to be a moment, but the moment is an illusion. It is and isn’t. This illusion is a series of about-to-bes and has-beens which altogether seem an event. It is a construction, an invention of our minds. Its familiarity makes it invisible. There is no past or future, only now. Our lives are real dreams, just one moment, all at once, now.