For more than thirty years I’ve been visiting my family in Europe. Through the same large kitchen window overlooking an expansive Athenian metropolis, I've experienced a compelling array of natural and urban ephemera: shifting atmospherics, feverishly-flickering lights, boisterous soirees, and bustling thoroughfares. Anchored by the mythological wonder of the ancient Parthenon in the far distance, this view enchanted my child mind. Often lost in reveries from limitless memory-making and milestone journeys to Greece in youth, while being raised among two disparate cultures, this vista emerged as a curious duality: intriguing foreign landscape (ambition) vs comfortably-familiar novelty (safety).

As commuters in time’s apparent unidimensional flow, nostalgia gradually accrues while memories fade, and we become seeming foreigners to our own pasts. This large private window has served as a calming portal of stillness among a frenzied life surrounded by density. Standing before it, I contemplate life's evolving conundrum of welcome personal diversity among a yearning for uniformity.Coupled with my fondness for space among an ongoing struggle with being present, these views, as cumulative fragments of time, form a personal visual diary—a meditative evolution of human presence. Each image represents a timestamped gaze and is titled according to moments' fleeting perceptions.