Artistic and philosophical conceptualization of "Time is an Asynchronous Garden"

Inspired by Van Gogh's Mademoiselle Gachet in her garden in Auvers-sur-Oise, this reinterpretation fuses subrealist abstraction and hybrid techniques (acrylic, digital, stop-motion animation) to explore temporality as a fragmented landscape. The work deconstructs the linearity of time by superimposing duplicate layers of the original canvas, creating a network of "planes of entanglement" where past and present coexist. Each layer, manually cropped and then digitally animated, symbolizes a distinct perception of time: static (physical painting) vs. moving (digital projection). This dialectic embodies the idea of ​​a world-garden where time expands, collapses, or evaporates, freeing the viewer from its normative demands—an asynchronous well-being.

Temporality and Digital Existentialism

By fragmenting the original work into multiple animated instances, I transpose the Bergsonian concept of duration into a visual experience: time is no longer a uniform flow, but a superposition of coexisting moments. The digital layers, through their kinetic fluidity, contrast with the fixity of the physical canvas, embodying the tension between eternity and ephemerality. This hybridity questions our relationship to reality in the digital age, where the virtual multiplies perspectives without anchoring them in a stable present. The garden, a metaphor for the world, becomes a temporal non-place where memory (Van Gogh), technology (digital), and becoming (animation) intersect. Xanthopsia Collection: Perception and Resilience

The entire collection, by glorifying altered perception, celebrates art's ability to sublimate existential fractures. By reinterpreting Van Gogh—a figure of tormented creation—using contemporary tools, the work suggests that technology does not distort the classical, but rather reveals its invisible layers. Xanthopsia, here, is not a visual handicap, but a deliberate prism: filtering reality to extract a joyful lucidity, like Van Gogh's sunflowers, both dazzling and deadly. Philosophically, this echoes Camus's approach: finding the absurd, then transcending it through creation.

Conclusion: Reinvention as Legacy

This work not only pays homage to Van Gogh; it extends his aesthetic revolution by integrating digital technology as a medium of transcendence. By blurring the lines between the tangible and the virtual, it invites us to rethink art as a space for the coexistence of temporalities—where the past dialogues with the present without dissolving into it. Thus, the asynchronous garden becomes a metaphor for the creative act itself: a place where time, suspended, allows humans to reconcile with the ephemeral.

Tribute to Van Gogh: Marguerite Gachet in the Garden

See the original work at the Orsay Museum