Sound & Vision
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2025-2026

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Tarona (b. 1985, Curaçao) is a visual artist and director working across film, photography and research. In her work, she examines how memory and knowledge are maintained and shared within the Black Diaspora. She investigates how this knowledge moves through gestures, places, times, and materials, rather than being fixed in language or narrative alone. She works across two registers: guided as much by intuition as by rigorous research, with feeling as a key part of her method.
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Illusion / Transparency
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Behind The Traveler
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Time Traveler Tetra Vision
The Last Angel Of History

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Time Traveler Tetra Vision 


This combination keeps coming to me as a title for the work — in reference to the Time Travelers’ Device. I think it’s because I started thinking about the letters “TV”, as we on this planet would say to describe “Television”. I found it amusing to find out how Wikipedia describes “Television”:

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.
The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers.

When I keep thinking about how there is a device that would transmit materials, but is simultaneously a mass medium, being capable of more, my mind keeps expanding. I’m thinking about mass in terms of a large body of matter with no definitive shape. I also keep thinking about dimensions, the collapsing of past, present and future, the idea of the butterfly effect*, how a person could travel through space and time and how they would capture everything. Essentially, I think looking through, and working through, an archive is like time travel; you are in the now, looking at the past, and possibly considering the future while doing so. 

It all exists at once.

*the butterfly effect: stemming from chaos theory, simply means that tiny changes in a complex system's starting point can lead to huge, unpredictable differences later on, like a butterfly's wing flap potentially influencing a distant tornado. It highlights that in interconnected systems (like weather or life), small actions can trigger massive chain reactions, showing how seemingly insignificant events can have huge, unforeseen consequences, making long-term prediction impossible. 
I want to do something with the idea of “TV”, also linking back to my earlier post which also looks into MTV (Music Television). By the way, I think it’s interesting how we write the word TV, as if it captures two seperate words; Tele Vision. ‘Tele’ is a prefix by the way, which refers to ‘covering distance’. Vision means ‘the act or power of seeing’. 

So, Tele Vision would mean covering distance as an act or power of seeing.

*prefix: a letter or a group of letters added to the beginning of a word to create a new word with a different meaning.
When I started thinking about this, I started thinking about the alternative for the word ‘tele’, in which I could catch the idea of multiple dimensions, as I am planning on working with moving image, music, sounds, text, photography and all sorts of materials. Why would a time traveler not try to catch all these mediums, right?

The word “tetra” kept popping up in my head — which means “four” in Latin, which I link to  four dimensions. You know what is four-dimensional? Time (however, I am starting to read that it’s actually Space?). It’s like saying “Time Travelers Four Dimensional Vision”. But that sounds too long for my taste, so Tetra works. 

Aight.  Let’s get into it:

  • Time traveler → someone who can move across time, or more metaphorically, someone who understands past, present, and future simultaneously.

  • Tetra → means four (from Greek tetra).

  • Vision → sight, perception, or understanding.

Four-dimensional perception of time
It could mean seeing time not just linearly (past → present → future), but as a 4D structure—like spacetime. A “time traveler” with tetra vision might perceive:

  • past
    present
    future
    alternate timelines or consequences

All at once, instead of in a specific order.

Beyond human perception
Humans see in three spatial dimensions. “Tetra vision” could imply a fourth dimension of sight, suggesting an elevated or non-human way of perceiving reality—seeing causes, effects, and hidden patterns across time.

Fourfold awareness (symbolic / philosophical)
It might represent awareness in four modes, such as:

  •                 memory (past)
  •                experience (present)
  •                 anticipation (future)
  •                 i ntention or choice (what could happen)

A time traveler with tetra vision doesn’t just observe time — they understand how decisions ripple. I see this as possible connective tissue in the building of the work.

I want to close off this entry with a quote by the great Maxi Jazz:

  •            “You don’t need eyes to see, you need vision”



Connective material
Original source unknown (still in search!)
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Still from Interstellar, dir. Chris Nolan (2014)

Aphex Twin – Come To Daddy, dir. Chris Cunningham (1997)

26-02
Text, Images
13-01-2026