On time...

… On time…
“Time too is nothing. It persists merely as a consequence of the events taking place in it.” (Heidegger 1992: 3)
“Time is that within which events take place.” (Heidegger 1992: 3)
“Time is thus an unfurling whose stages stand in a relation of earlier and later to one another. Each earlier and later can be determined in terms of a now which, however, is itself arbitrary.” (Heidegger 1992: 5)
…Thinking about continuous line drawings… like a trace of time from the past to the present (now). The objects within these drawings are like a fixed, a constant, as time passes by them. The only way we know time has passed is by the signs of wear and tear on the objects – traces of time, human presence and activity. Slowly the objects that seem fixed, and constant will turn to dust…
“…into the ‘how’ in which all ‘what’ dissolves into dust” (Heidegger 1992: 21)
…dust as a metaphor for death and the passing of time… the dust on butterfly’s wings… how the solid and substantial becomes insubstantial and disappears… traces… poetics… fading like memories…

Reference:
Heidegger, M. 1992. The Concept of Time [trans. McNeill, W.]. Blackwell publishers.