J’ai le Temps is a research and visual arts project that explores tree bark as a trace and record of Time. Through repeated and accumulated bark imprints, the project builds surfaces and compositions where layers of memory, transformation, and territory emerge.
Currently in a research process, the work is based on the idea that bark holds the passage of Time: in its marks, textures, and scars, processes of growth, erosion, and permanence are inscribed. By making imprints of trees from this territory, I also seek to create a connection to the place I inhabit as a migrant, leaving my own trace through contact with matter and landscape.
The project arises from a need to slow down in a context where Time has become a form of control, shaped by productivity and constant acceleration. Rather than representing Time, I am interested in observing how it settles into matter.
The research is in dialogue with the Latin American feminist struggle phrase “Neither Earth nor Women are territories of conquest”, extending it to include Time as another sensitive and contested territory.
