in our first class, we talked dealing with the past/passed--in particular, those who are deceased and how artists and designers address the concept of death. a discussion of the past led me to my own interpretation, and i wanted to build off the play on words of past and passed. instead of further investigating the physical concept of death, i decided to examine the past in terms of scientific and technological discoveries and how those relate to what has passed in the past.
i began to think about knowledge and the human capacity to accumulate knowledge. what has become known cannot become forgotten, because what has been revealed cannot be hidden again. in my timeline, i looked at several points in history where something that was once unknown, became known, or what was once believed to be true proved to be the contrary. suddenly the unknown quality of something has passed and become a part of the past.
from the mapping of the new world to the mapping of the human genome, these discoveries are now a part of the past. it is not to say that these are now dead, but rather, they open many doors to future discoveries that will complete the cycle of moving from the unknown to the known, the passed to the past.
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