“The Materialization of Time Vol. 2 is a continuation of the first volume and once again explores time as a vast structure of memory, information and interconnectedness. Every object is a fossil of consciousness—a crystallization of lived time. A finished piece of art does not merely represent a moment or period of time; it is that moment or period of time, transfigured into form. Objects, then, are not merely things. They are capsules of lived time. Each object carries within it the hours, memories and emotional weather from which it was formed. When someone encounters them, this time does not remain sealed—it unfolds anew within their own stream of experience. My temporal fingerprints are embedded in the piece, yet the viewer’s consciousness fuses with it, creating a dialogue across dimensions of subjectivity. It is a form of time travel: not the transport of bodies through eras, but the sending forward of lived experience in condensed, tangible form.
With this publication I invite you to witness these fossils of consciousness, these condensed fragments of human existence. May they awaken in you not only a recognition of time’s passage but also a sense of its boundless potential to be reimagined, re-lived and re-shaped.”
— Marcus Schaefer
Featuring paintings, drawings & sculptures
35 × 50 cm
36 pages
Limited edition of 30 copies
Designed & published by Marcus Schaefer Atelier
[Printed on 55gsm improved newspaper]
“The Materialization of Time Vol. 2 is a continuation of the first volume and once again explores time as a vast structure of memory, information and interconnectedness. Every object is a fossil of consciousness—a crystallization of lived time. A finished piece of art does not merely represent a moment or period of time; it is that moment or period of time, transfigured into form. Objects, then, are not merely things. They are capsules of lived time. Each object carries within it the hours, memories and emotional weather from which it was formed. When someone encounters them, this time does not remain sealed—it unfolds anew within their own stream of experience. My temporal fingerprints are embedded in the piece, yet the viewer’s consciousness fuses with it, creating a dialogue across dimensions of subjectivity. It is a form of time travel: not the transport of bodies through eras, but the sending forward of lived experience in condensed, tangible form.
With this publication I invite you to witness these fossils of consciousness, these condensed fragments of human existence. May they awaken in you not only a recognition of time’s passage but also a sense of its boundless potential to be reimagined, re-lived and re-shaped.”
— Marcus Schaefer
Featuring paintings, drawings & sculptures
35 × 50 cm
36 pages
Limited edition of 30 copies
Designed & published by Marcus Schaefer Atelier
[Printed on 55gsm improved newspaper]
