All That Man Is (In Response To Time)
2026 / ongoing
Four-channel moving image / installation
8min33sec / continuous

“we must examine the meaning and significance of uncertainty; and to this end some inquiry into the nature
and function of knowledge itself is necessary.”
Frank Knight (economist) Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit (1921)

Note
(deep and meaningful)
What began as a response to Christian Marclay’s The Clock has become an exploration of masculinity and
narrative determinism. Although not exclusively, it is largely men we see here who ask a coin to direct their
fate in the same way the audience enters into an agreement. Consciously and unconsciously, we ask to be
directed; we suspend our disbelief and give over our emotional autonomy. By knowing the boundaries, we
permit the narrative system to take control without ever needing to question our role within it perhaps for
liberation.

This reflects our society at a fundamental level. There are structures and systems we place our faith in that
are themselves contingent, subject to a chaos beneath their order. Each is held up by nothing more than a
value we agree to place within it: a meme, a coin, a pension, a customer, a stock, a person. Roland Barthes,
writing of the photograph, names the punctum as the unplanned, contingent detail that pierces the viewer,
that “rises from the scene, shoots out of it like an arrow.” The coin toss is such a detail: a contingent key,
hidden in plain sight inside stories but narratively inevitable.