Art collage: The Delay of Seeing

This collage explores the temporal gap between experience and awareness.
Fragmented faces emerge and dissolve across layered surfaces, suggesting a self that is never fully present, only perceived in retrospect.
The recurring symbols of time — the clock and the rooster — function not as markers of precision, but as reminders of delay.
The phrase embedded in the composition reflects an impossible demand: to recognize value exactly when it occurs.
Instead, perception lags behind, and meaning forms only after the moment has already passed.