The exhibition Over Time consists of three new works, each arresting and extending time in 

order to contemplate our internal lives and the physical world. The first is an installation of 

approximately 30 images of cloud formations.  The prints, mounted on aluminum, sit near 

one another on a hand-finished pine shelf that runs along three adjacent walls of the main 

gallery.  In the metaphorical work investigating the human experience of time, images jump 

cut and morph, moving along and reappearing – going back in time and eventually becoming 

new. They are cell phone pictures made as notes documenting shifting experience. While the 

photographic frame implies intervals, it marks the transitions of lived experience – like 

breaths and the pauses between them. 

Screening in the back of the gallery is a single channel video with sound entitled, The Infinite 

Now.  Like “With Time” images in the video morph into one another, however, here the 

work exists in cosmic time rather than the narrative time of human experience.  This work 

exists in the space between the cosmic infinite and our finite understanding and view of it – 

a human celebration of and attempt at the sublime.  

The last work in the show is a diptych entitled ‘Over Time’ and is a collaged view of a 

rhododendron tree that is behind a house Chiles stayed in during a residency in Georgia.  

Coming and going, she admired the tree each time and this work reflects her admiration for 

and memory of the plant.

Like much of Chiles’ work, she relies upon the energy of the natural world to build a 

language that communicates the poetics of lived experiences.