Graveyard
Shift 2000
Inkjet on Tyvek
Two units, each 80 x 80cm
- Wheels crushed by wheels.
- The expression on its face at the moment of its death as a timepiece.
- Possible that the clock's eccentric account of time was the reason it was originally thrown out into the the road. The clock's dishonesty: pretending to be simply measuring time, while actually transforming someones qualitative experience of it.
- A prerequisite technology - without the division of the day into workable increments, there would be no time in which to get everything done.
- Feverish hallucination - that time is passing before one as a visible and spectacular parade.
- The breaking of the clock represents a small triumph of form over function. It is not until things go absent or malfunction that one ceases to be distracted by the product of their functions and is reminded of the essence of their forms.
- A method of abstraction which, rather than leading to an obliteration of meaning, might instead be used as currency to buy back valuable information about form (of a technology) and the order of relations through which it exercises a mundane kind of power.
- Reverse disembodiment - re-embodiment by erasing content to reveal form. To separate what it is from what it says - as if to do so might spring the door on a perverse and incestuous relation between necessity and invention.