Chronogram of Inexistent Time Malena Szlam, 2008

Chronogram is a photomontage that explores stillness, motion, and memory. Using a 35mm still camera, multiple exposures were composed and edited incamera, creating frameless sequences of images printed on 35mm filmstrips. When projected, these images become a nonlinear, nonsynchronized collage. The ephemeral quality of the imagestheir transparency, layering, and repetitioninvites us to reflect on the role memory plays in perception, the ways we mentally reconfigure fragments to construct stability and meaning in an environment of perpetual flux.