The "Time Moves Still" works (2011–3)Amir Zaki. "Time Moves Still" series, Exhibitions and Bodies of Work. Retrieved March 6, 2019. explore instability, pliability and resistance, pairing images of "discordant amalgamations of geology, civil engineering, and residential construction" lining cliffsides with studies of "hobbled though strangely beguiling urban trees."Myers, Holly. "Architecture, nature in motion," Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2013, p. D16.Khalsa, Sant. Being Here and There, Lancaster, CA: Museum of Art and History, 2014, p. 60–61.Shaw, Michael. "John Divola and Amir Zaki," Modern Painters, November 2011, p. 81. The cliff series (e.g., Coastline Cliffside_08, 2012) uses long exposures that harken to early photography, compositing dozens of sequenced image-captures into seemingly instantaneous photographs that nonetheless yield clues to their extended temporality. Los Angeles Times critic Holly Myers called them "stately, often elegant photographs" that uncover "the peculiar, the precarious, the buoyant, and the beautiful" in structures often overlooked.
