The Lost Time Series is an installation composed of ten wool-felt garments and a wardrobe of time.
The work explores how time is continuously consumed, lost, and forgotten within contemporary life. In a rapidly accelerating society, people are surrounded by work, information, responsibilities, and countless daily routines. Although time appears to be fully occupied and utilized, it gradually loses its weight and leaves only faint traces behind.
The ten garments represent different states of time, ranging from formation and accumulation to loosening, erosion, disappearance, and dissolution. While retaining the recognizable form of clothing, they progressively lose their wearability, reflecting lived experiences that once existed but can no longer be fully retained.
Color functions as an essential component of the temporal structure. White symbolizes time that remains perceptible and preserved; blue represents time in motion, transition, and transformation; and gray evokes residual traces that have become blurred, fragmented, and close to disappearance. Rather than serving a decorative purpose, color acts as a visual language through which temporal change becomes visible.
At the center of the installation stands a wardrobe of time, functioning as a symbolic container for storing experiences and memories. Yet time can never be truly preserved. Even when collected, archived, or remembered, it continues to transform and slip away.
The Lost Time Series is not about nostalgia. Instead, it reflects a condition in which contemporary individuals are gradually losing their connection to time. In a culture shaped by efficiency, speed, and the constant flow of information, people increasingly measure, schedule, and optimize time, yet find it more difficult to genuinely experience its presence. The work ultimately asks a question: as we continue to chase time, are we also losing our ability to experience life itself?
