CORINNE QUIN Timekeepers, 2008
“To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour” (William Blake)
"What does time look like? What does time feel like? Standard analogue and digital clocks exist in the here and now, only telling the precise moment of the present. Timekeepers clocks use thread and string to develop a new language of time. Time is a distance measured with a length of thread pulled through a standard clock mechanism. The thread winds into a container and creates its own particular shapes and forms. This gathering of thread is a physical manifestation of time, an accumulation of the real, tangible and visual that shows the past, present and the future. The Timekeepers can measure any moment of human experience decided by the user: from birth, death, marriage, absence, love and beyond. Over time, the growing object accumulates a personal narrative and emotional value specific and unique to its owner."
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/484-loss-absence-the-unseen-identity
Time is a convention and it is the most precious thing. Through doing an experiment by taking one image every five minutes of my idea I started to discover a number of things. It became apparent through the accumulation of time, I noticed how little time there was. How much time was wasted, and how it is never stagnant. Time can be viewed like a palimpsest, and our personal decisions and view points all determine a different outcome and experience. We all use time differently, it can scare, encourage and be quite a daunting thing. The thought of time building up and never decaying led to the idea concept of collection and storing. Like a palimpsest over time the clarity of the past begins to fade slightly, but your always adding new experiences and learning from previous ones. I want to explore ways in which this can be collected, and perhaps displayed as a visual device for many.
Ideas I want to look at:
- A clock that counts down. There are statistics that display how many days of our lives we sleep for, travel to work, spend on holiday. Could a clock be designed to count down these statistics....so we watch our lives tick away.
- Can a clock be designed that only ticks when you are wasting time....so at the end of the day you get an accumilation of time that has been collected.
The points that interest me from Corrinne's project is that you can see time accumilating and adding to. Can the thread be changed so that you get a clearer representation of how you have used your time..and can this give you a reflection of how your life has been speant.
"What does time look like? What does time feel like? Standard analogue and digital clocks exist in the here and now, only telling the precise moment of the present. Timekeepers clocks use thread and string to develop a new language of time. Time is a distance measured with a length of thread pulled through a standard clock mechanism. The thread winds into a container and creates its own particular shapes and forms. This gathering of thread is a physical manifestation of time, an accumulation of the real, tangible and visual that shows the past, present and the future. The Timekeepers can measure any moment of human experience decided by the user: from birth, death, marriage, absence, love and beyond. Over time, the growing object accumulates a personal narrative and emotional value specific and unique to its owner."
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/484-loss-absence-the-unseen-identity
Time is a convention and it is the most precious thing. Through doing an experiment by taking one image every five minutes of my idea I started to discover a number of things. It became apparent through the accumulation of time, I noticed how little time there was. How much time was wasted, and how it is never stagnant. Time can be viewed like a palimpsest, and our personal decisions and view points all determine a different outcome and experience. We all use time differently, it can scare, encourage and be quite a daunting thing. The thought of time building up and never decaying led to the idea concept of collection and storing. Like a palimpsest over time the clarity of the past begins to fade slightly, but your always adding new experiences and learning from previous ones. I want to explore ways in which this can be collected, and perhaps displayed as a visual device for many.
Ideas I want to look at:
- A clock that counts down. There are statistics that display how many days of our lives we sleep for, travel to work, spend on holiday. Could a clock be designed to count down these statistics....so we watch our lives tick away.
- Can a clock be designed that only ticks when you are wasting time....so at the end of the day you get an accumilation of time that has been collected.
The points that interest me from Corrinne's project is that you can see time accumilating and adding to. Can the thread be changed so that you get a clearer representation of how you have used your time..and can this give you a reflection of how your life has been speant.
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