"In Being" questions how Western-influenced structures shape understandings of the self, the other, and the conditions of being. Through an exploration of time, coloniality, and ontology, I  examine how Western temporal frameworks influence the experience and organisation of existence. The animation made using sand collected from Cape Town’s southern coastline, a site marked by colonisation, as both material and metaphor. As matter breaks down from rock to quartz, calcite crystal, clay, and sand, the work reflects on processes of being and becoming. Ultimately resisting a fixed linear progression.

 

Instead, this work  proposes a non-linear conception of "being" as cyclical, relational, and continuously unfolding. Being is not positioned as a stable end point, but as something present within all states of transformation and capable of becoming in multiple directions simultaneously. For this reason, the animation is designed to play in a continuous loop, without clear beginning or conclusion, existing outside linear temporality and resisting expectations of narrative resolution.

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Through this structure, "In Being" critiques Western conceptions of time and the systems of governance organised around them. Within these frameworks, "being" becomes increasingly tied to efficiency, productivity, accumulation, and colonial expansion. The work instead gestures toward forms of existence that move beyond linearity, control, and the imperative to produce, to gain, to colonise.