Time

Humanity is increasingly drawn further and further away from nature into a new manmade world.  What was once a gradual disconnect from nature is a disconnect that is increasing at a faster and faster pace in recent times.  This work explores this trend in a spatial experience sequenced in time.

Humanity is increasingly drawn further and further away from nature into a new manmade world.  What was once a gradual disconnect from nature is a disconnect that is increasing at a faster and faster pace in recent times.  This work explores this trend in a spatial experience sequenced in time.

This unbuilt environmental artwork takes the form of a sequence of outdoor rooms exploring in an artistic and spatial way the methods humankind has devised to measure time and how this measurement has in turn influenced life itself.

The work is experienced over time and in a chronological order of human inventions of the measurement of time itself.  In each of the 6 progressive outdoor rooms, the viewer experiences spaces which transition from vast to claustrophobic; from light to dark; from natural materials to manmade materials; and from silence to increasingly louder and more rapid percussion sounds.  In the last room, a door opens to allow us to revisit the beginning with the knowledge gained in the past. Using this knowledge acquired along the way, the environmental sculpture circles us back to our beginnings so we can re-evaluate our future direction.

1. Sundial
2. Sandglass
3. Water Clock
4. Mechanical Weight Driven Clock and Pendulum Hallway
5. Mainspring Clock
6. Quartz Oscillation Clock and Atomic Clock
7. Door leading to the Sundial