Artwork Description: In his philosophical work ‘Being and Time’, Martin Heidegger makes an important distinction between being and Being. What does it mean to truly Be? To truly exist and become one’s full authentic self. This work serves as an introspective procedure to find out about Being. To inquire into our temporality, impermanence and our self-proclaimed existence. This is done through a viewpoint of impermanence. To view time in the span of one’s own existence rather than an enlarged timeline of phenomenon. First, one must understand the way in which human beings have become accustomed to defining and appropriating the world around them for their own purpose. The meanings we attribute to objects and knowledge seem to be at times only out of utility. In a rather existential approach, this body of work attempts to explore a realm of disassociation from mundane distraction. Observe: The sea that surrounds us engulfs the rocks and swallows them whole. The same sea when it is rough then hurls large rocks from beneath. In the same week, when you pass by the seashore you might see a rock taken; separated from the mainland, but you may also observe large new rocks covered in limpets and algae that the sea has placed ashore. This process, this naturally occurring phenomena, a cycle of destruction and creation, is what moves time and the phenomenon that occurs within it. T.S. Eliot in his work ‘Four Quartets: Burnt Norton’, states that we are, “Distracted from distraction by distraction.” This work is an invitation to reject the mundane, accept finitude and proceed accordingly