They found that all the ghost forests and marsh plants along the Pacific Northwest coast had been killed at the same moment in time as the land dropped down and was covered by tsunami sand, roughly three centuries ago. (discovermagazine.com)
I encourage anyone interested in this topic to read the other entries, a diverse set of people looking at the same moment in time from completely different perspectives. (thebookdesigner.com)
The synchronic means everything that's happening at the same moment in time, so we need to see where the artist fits into the picture, and the diachronic refers the developments across time — historically, what are the historical developments that suggest that to show Marlene Dumas at this point is right. (artzip.org)