The title "A Thin Slice of Time" draws inspiration from Susan Sontag’s exploration of photography in her essay In Plato’s Cave, from On Photography. Sontag explains how the camera as a tool that freezes moments, capturing fleeting moments of reality and saving them forever. She reflects on how photographs can pause experience into single, isolated frames, which creates a version of reality that is, in a way, not fully reality and only a thin slice.

Sontag’s idea of photography as a way to isolate moments relates to the phrase " a thin slice of time." This suggests that what we see in a photograph is just a narrow fragment of a much larger continuum. Time is uncontainable almost like space. But through the lens of a camera we capture one thin slice, one brief moment that allows us to examine and reflect it in detail. This idea conveys a sense of temporality, where even the most significant moments pass in an instant, but art has the power to hold them still.

By naming my poster "A Thin Slice of Time," I am able to show themes Sontag touches on in her passage. I wanted the poster to be in space because of the title. But also, because it is representative of time. I added a image of a samurai because they are symbolic of a camera as they are able to slice space capturing a slice of time. This poster invites the critical thinking of how much or how little of reality we can truly capture and understand through media like photographs.