Still Time | 2021

Created for Momentum | Intersection 2020/2021, installed at the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion Sept 2021.

The Still Time clock is an abstraction of time. It is an atomic time piece that uses a moiré of light to generate concentration and altered states of awareness. The LED light uses warm and cool tones to mimic the rising and setting of the sun. A clock movement and movement controller translates time into patterns of light through three layers of reeded glass. The largest striation of light rotates in accordance to the hour hand of the clock, while the smallest represents the second hand of the clock, the middle — the minute. This device translates time through pattern and can be learned like a language.

The Still Time platform is an interactive light box utilizing LEDs to project caustics created by a shallow bed of water. Participating viewers are invited to stand or sit on the light box. Audience interaction generates movement in the water and can be observed through subtle caustic projections on the surface of the platform. The water also serves the purpose of generating ions for energetic expansion as was sometimes customary in traditional temples and places of worship.

Visit the links below for more information including audio meditations found in the “Instructions for Use”.

• INSTRUCTION FOR USE

• HOW TO TELL STILL TIME

• INTERVIEW

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