What is Sustainability? In modern discourse, the sustainability deals with how humans can sustain our existence as our traditional resources dwindle. What can we do with what we have left? What is left?

The word sustainability is the quality of a thing, which makes it capable of being sustained. This transitive verb “sustain” comes from the Latin sustinēre, meaning “to hold up.”

My metaphor for sustainability deals with time, history, and the finite yet inconstant nature of our world.

The only thing that can’t be recycled, reused and reduce is Time.

Our identity defined by time, and the decision we take in our everyday lives about what we wear, eat, how to behave and how to spend time help to make us who we are. But nowadays in order for people to know their identity, they look at their surroundings.

In my piece, the hands represent how we are trying to hold to our identity within the changing surrounding.

The hands closing together holding and protecting our precious time, but time is running out.

 

Dimensions are H20cm * W40cm * D60cm