"Yet a thorough description of homogeneous "space" and sequential "time," as objectively existing entities, had to wait until the invention of the printing press. For it was the dissemination of printed texts (texts that until then had been meticulously copied by hand and preserved, like treasures, in monastic libraries and universities) into the wider community of persons, and the subsequent rise o vernacular literatures, that effectively sealed the ascendancy of alphabetic modes of thought over the oral, participatory experience of nature" (David Abram, the spell of the sensuous).
This chapter inspired me to create the preservation of the oral language but with the modern aspect of it. We are a society obsessed with preserving, whether it is food that has been modified to last longer than normal or even our own youth. The glass device has the scientific suggestion of preservation and the blue represents earth and the color of the oceans viewed form space. The liquid will eventually evaporate and the text dipped in the liquid will also eventually fade away; All to contrast the inevitable part of life’s cycle of change and development.
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