Eternal Clock

Eternal Clock 1

Eternal Clock 2

Eternal Clock 3

Installation

Eternal Clock

 Wood, Concrete, Plexiglass, and Three Videos 

52”x 35”x 52” (W x H x D)

April 2013 

In this piece, I am dealing with an idea of eternal time and continuity of the world. We do not actually realize that we are living in a time that leads us to death. In other words, our physical bodies are going to disappear eventually yet the world will continue and time will go on forever. The triangle symbolizes eternity and I am using it to represent eternal time. I made three videos of clocks that imply eternal time. I built a giant pyramid made out of concrete. The concrete symbolizes physical matter. I projected two videos onto two different sides of the pyramid, and the scale of the video is smaller compared to the sculpture. Also, the other video was projecting on the corner of the wall.

What if a clock goes backwards? One of the videos on the sculpture is asking this question by depicting a clock going backwards while a person’s physical body disappears into eternal time. For both videos on the pyramid, I am using a projected shadow to create an abstract drawing of a clock. Both of the videos create a mystical mood. In the last video on the wall, there are people walking around the outline of a triangle. The performance becomes a sort of a drawing of people in eternal time. The frame of the video and how it is transformed by projecting into the corner create the sculptural form.

By projecting clocks onto the pyramid, I am setting eternal time in motion. The viewers are walking outside eternal time in the time of the world. This provokes the understanding that our physical bodies are living in an eternal time in the physical world.