The artist Alÿs spent nine hours in the scorching sun pushing huge blocks of ice across the street until it evaporated into a puddle of water on the ground. It seems to me that there is the same movement of ice that melts over time as it moves. the process of moving from ice to water is also a reflection of the trajectory of time.
This installation by artist Almond consists of 567 digital wall clocks controlled by two GM5 modular master clocks, which allow all the clocks to be fully synchronized and turned over together. The work uses clocks for time measurement, which is based on authoritative units of measurement. As the numbers of the clocks simultaneously change to the next number, the sense of oppression that the passage of time brings to the viewer is immense. Because this work magnifies the existence of time and slows it down with the minute-to-minute changes, you are left waiting for one minute in anticipation of the next jump of the clock. This work confronts the viewer with the passage of time through the oppressive sense of its passage.
First week’s experiment was to use ice as a unit of measurement of time, showing the passage of time through the process of ice melting into water and gradually drying out. The evaporation of water leaves a liquid trail on the cloth, a trail that I believe presents a trajectory of time, as this trajectory includes changes in the physical form of the ice and the flow of water.
I experiment with a variety of materials and visualize the passage of time through the process and results of the experiment.
For this week’s experiment I have tried to record the burning of candles and incense and how their physical form changes as they burn and as time passes. For example, the physical form of a candle melted from a solid to a liquid state as it burns, and then appear to flow. When the liquid flows down and then solidifies into a solid state as the temperature drops, eventually forming a dynamic trajectory that appears to solidify.
In addition, I have tried visual experiments using incense. Incense produces a lot of smoke when burning, and the solids turn into powder after burning.
I have also recorded the changes in the banana over time, as the colour of the skin gradually appears in darker patches until it becomes completely dark.
I tried to display the trajectory of time after the experiment in the form of posters， and by scanning the poster through the AR(Augmented Reality) method, the changes produced by the whole experiment will be shown. Through the combination of the static poster and the dynamic AR method, I hope to show the passage of time in a more comprehensive康破很sei无 way, calling on people to cherish time and pay attention to the changes of people and things around them.
The poster shows all the trajectories after things change, including the passage of time, the changes in physical form, and the resulting movement trajectories, collectively referred to as the trajectories left by time. AR is to present the process of the formation of this time track in this way, and you can reproduce the change process over time through AR. I speed up the entire recording process and show the slow changes quickly. I want to use this to express the rapidity of the passage of time. I must cherish the moments around me, cherish the time, and pay attention to the changes of the things around me.