250 Seconds in 12 Hours

“250 seconds in 12 hours” is a still picture that is a composite of multiple photographs taken over a timeframe of roughly 12 hours. I take a picture of the same composition every 15 minutes until it is nighttime. The pictures are then overlapped and cropped to make a single picture. 

250 seconds represents the shutter speed in which the photos are taken, which is 1/250 seconds (four milliseconds). 

The composition: You will see me sitting at my outdoor workshop which I use to build my physical art pieces. I sit there for 12 hours writing and reading about the word “excel” by digging into literature on excellence from the perspectives of artists and philosophers. At the end of the day, I might have reached a much more comprehensive understanding of that term. On the other hand, I might have dug myself into a larger hole of incomprehension. 

With that being said, either outcome is fine with me because the entire process would have guided me through creating a visual product in 12 hours that would normally have taken me four milliseconds to produce, which is the best way I can demonstrate what “excel” means to me.

Mansour Al-Heera formally addresses himself as a film artist, although his work includes film theory, writing & screenwriting, painting, and design. With that being said, he generally refers to his work as simply “creating experiences through things.” as he is mostly interested in exploring Newness by mixing different work disciplines. He graduated from California College of the Arts, where he studied film and visual studies.