they say consciousness doesn’t flow like a river
but experienced in distinct, contained moments
like petals on a flower.
and what if flowers are quite literally the embodiment of time?
(srsly, what if the mechanisms of reality are actually in plain sight..)
this premise is the architecture behind KAIROS.
a system for the garden of moments that is your life.
it offers the space to see each petal clearly—
more importantly, their relationship to each other.
The flowers grew to a height of about six feet, their slender stems, like rods of glass, bearing a dozen leaves, the once transparent fronds frosted by the fossilized veins. At the peak of each stem was the time flower, the size of a goblet, the opaque outer petals enclosing the crystal heart. Their diamond brilliance contained a thousand faces, the crystal seeming to drain the air of its light and motion… Gradually the crystal dissolved, only the outer petals remaining intact, and the air around Axel became bright and vivd charged with slanting rays that flared away into the waning sunlight. Strange shifts momentarily transformed the evening, subtly altering its dimensions of time and space. –J.G. Ballard, The Garden of Time
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As the flower swayed slightly in the evening air, they glowed like fame-tipped spears.
as he carried the flower back on to the terrace, it began to sparkle and deliquesce, the light trapped within the core at last released. Gradually the crystal dissolved, only the outer petals remaining intact, and the air around Axel became bright and vivd charged with slanting rays that flared away into the waning sunlight. Strange shifts momentarily transformed the evening, subtly altering its dimensions of time and space. –J.G. Ballard, The Garden of Time