ABSTRACT
How do we try to stop the flow of time? Fixing time is probably the most universal of all human ambitions. All forms of art can be construed as nothing but snapshot representations of the present, frozen in time via mimesis. It allows us, self-conscious beings, to reflect and contemplate fleeting moments of existence that we extract and reconstruct from the flow of being. Oldest cave drawings are nothing but frozen pictorial representations of dynamic life events. The heliographic and photographic techniques of the early 19th century allowed the direct freezing representation of time, arguably the greatest of all human inventions. Man tries to steal time from God (Kronos), like Prometheus stole the fire from Zeus. These attempts are desperate and tragic. Their inescapable failure is patched up with all of our touching, yet fanciful narratives of immortality.
