Thursday, November 1, 2012

Initial Ideas.

When presented with the idea of being able to focus an artwork on the prospect of time; it got me hooked.

"Time is running out!"
"If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by?"
"History repeats itself."
"Life is a never-ending circle of time."

These quotes were just some of the ideas that I got; some of them are well known quotes, others are pieces of lyrics.

You can say I was a bit bummed out when we were told that the artwork had to be a clock; a clockwork with face, handles and a body. All coming together to your idea of time.

The first ideas I had was

  •  a spiral; which would have given me a huge load of technical difficulties as to how to make the hands go smaller and smaller as they came closer to the center. Then there was the issue of not really finding appropriate numerals.
  • spider web; a clock; quite old and no longer functioning, covered in spider webs to show that we've stopped moving. To bring across my thought about the human race no longer developing. Yes, we're constantly creating new things; but our mentalities are still the same as back then. We've created a electric car prototype that could be mass-produced, but we wont start using it; mostly because people are to greedy and as long as oil consuming cars are used, countries with oil are still in power. A power they don't want to use. All that would be brought across in one clock.
  • hourglass; an hourglass filled with sand; and a small clock swimming on the surface of the sand. Simply because I think it would be awesome. However; my time would limit me and it would be rushed.
  • clock; a normal clock with roman numerals

I'll spend some time thinking about it.

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