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The piece, a frangipani branch from his grandmother’s former garden in the neighborhood, will be planted in the museum’s garden, crossing temporal and spatial boundaries between the institution and the artist.

The initially jarring juxtaposition of then and now — fiction and documentary — quickly becomes intoxicating, inviting the viewer to both contemplate the ceaseless passage of time and ponder the seamless temporal transitions.

Through whatever combination of temporal and cultural forces, I belonged to a generation, or at least a significant fraction of a generation, that was actively interested in what came before us.

They would identify the smell of bananas, garlic, licorice, fish and so on, while the researchers took recordings of the activity of individual neurons in their piriform cortex and medial temporal lobe.

Lynch’s own solo work also demonstrated more than a touch of shapeshifting temporal vibes.