Time
Week 1 Quick Sundial Project
In order to better understand and start my first quick sundial project, I decided to look up on the internet what are the newer sundials currently available, and I wanted to use these examples as a start to my brainstorming and to try to find new ideals:
Week 2 Sundial Ideas
After researching sundial, I found that due to limitations, sundial can only be used before the sun rises and sets, and I couldn’t help but start thinking if there was any way to make sundial usable at night (although that didn’t seem to fit its characteristics).
But because of sundial’s long history, I didn’t want to implement it using arduino or any electrical related method, I wanted to use the same old approach. Just as I was thinking how I can do this, I saw the candle on my desk.
I decided to make a sundial candle candle holder, even if many users would not use the sundial as a timekeeper, some white collar workers in New York can use it as a candle holder to display their expensive candles.
I will start modeling this week and looking for candles that I can afford to use for testing. And below is the first prototype I made for this week’s basic sundial.
Week 3-5 Clock/Watch Interface
When I was reading about the order of time, I found a very interesting point: the stronger the gravity, the more spacetime curves, and the slower time itself proceeds. time is much slower than the Earth. And I wanted to show this kind of relationship.
Because I occasionally dazed on something in daily life, for me, when I am goofing off, I usually feel that time in the world has slowed down. And I had learned in an article that when people are goofing off, it is equivalent to the brain reducing the resources given to other senses, which means it will improve its own processing capacity, and that is why I feel that time slows down.
When I thought about this, I couldn’t help but connect the two ideas above: it would be interesting if I could make a clock that visualized the relationship between mass and time, but at the same time I could look at the clock and gaze at it, and in that gaze I could see the passage of time.
Week 5-6 Seeing time && Art Share
This video was shot by me in Guanajuato, Mexico: Sunset in Guanajuato. The reason I shot this sunset here is because I think Guanajuato has a lot of houses with contrasting colors. So the video contrast before and after the sunset will be very strong.
Watching this video made me think about how exactly people feel the passage of time,. I’m always talking about how I wish I could express time in different ways, but frankly I don’t really know how to describe it. Interestingly, during this trip, when I visited the universidad nacional autónoma de méxico I found a very interesting installation that gave me some inspiration.
The name of this installation is GEOMETRÍAS, by Mexican artist Tania Candiani. In this project Tania disscussed:
How does time elapse and pass? How is time measured and recorded? How is it perceived and felt?
The first works in the series were made in the desert of La Salada in Mexicali, where she placed clocks without batteries – a mere object without sound – which shadows, as on the old dials, marked the passage of time.
In “Plataforma Sonora” she introduced the sound of the mechanism, and the ticking of the clocks, as a vital pulse evidenced that passage.
In “Geometries”, a sound painting in movement, conjugates shadow and pulse, manipulates the physical perception of time and its sound as metaphors of continuous symmetries and becoming. The piece works both in its ability to connect harmonic qualities and in its manifestation of energy stored in sound waves. This series of architectural/sound interventions reflect on the present and memory, on our activities and schedules, on sleep and rest.
Tania breaks down time into sound, cause and effect, and image. We can feel that even though the three are separated, we can still feel time in different places. This means that in addition to the visible form of time, there are also many invisible forms that we should explore.
For example, hearing a slow clock sound will bring us a sense of relaxation, but a sharp one may make us feel nervous. Is it really the high and low frequency vibrations that make our emotions rise and fall. Apparently not, it is our experience that connects our emotions to the sound that makes us feel. From this aspect, we have many forms of “seeing time”.