‘Time is Elastic’ concertina book, and self portrait as shown at The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art as part of a group show ‘The Skin We Live In’. This work, acquired into the collection alongside the exhibition, offers a lyrical exploration of fluctuations in the human experience of time - particularly during periods of illness, loss or isolation. In physics, time passes at a slower pace at sea level than it does at the top of a mountain when measured on an atomic level. Time is relative to the gravitational force applied to it and a mass slows down time around itself. But equally, the human experience of time is not consistent with a perpetually equal linear representation either. A lived experience of time is composed of moments – fleeting touch, of memory, of feelings, reminiscent scents or sounds. Our experience of the present is entirely interwoven with feelings of the past and imaginings of the future.