Always/Never by United Visual Artists is an examination of our perception of time.

About the project:

Always/Never is a grid of pyramidal elements inspired by the sundial, each passing through time at a different rate. Changing patterns of light and shadow create the illusion of a fluid surface; shifting combinations of colours from nature recall different times of day.

 You can see it in motion in this video:

Shinji Ohmaki’s evolving room installation Moment & Eternity is a tribute to time.

About the project:

Moment and Eternity overturns established codes, eschewing the gallery wall in favour of the floor, and establishing a new form of contact with the viewing public. Japanese artist Shinji Ohmaki invites us to interact with and contemplate an evolving, eminently poetic installation.

Moment and Eternity is a kaleidoscope of floral motifs developed at floor level. The dense composition consists of brilliant, coloured pigments applied directly to white felt, using a stencil technique. Visitors are invited to wander across the work: their passage is an integral element in the piece, which evolves as their steps generate new forms. Subject to chance, the ever-changing work evokes the footprint as a testament to the passage of time.

The images from Richard Silver’s series New York Sliced were the result of photographing buildings at regular intervals during the 1.5 hour transition from day to night and then splicing those photographs together. Visit his site for many more.

Movement by Guido Mocafico

About the project and book:

Time is naturally divided by astronomical phenomena, such as the seasons or day and night, which repeat themselves in a cyclical fashion. To divide Time into finer fractions, artificial means such as sundials which mark the movement of the shadows projected by the sun, or clepsydra based on water flow, were invented. Ever since 1657, when the first watch was created, we use oscillatory movements of a mechanical system to measure time. The photographer Guido Mocafico has explored these movements. He chose more complex and rarer mechanisms: a whole new world of know-how controlled by Master Watchmakers without any trace of electronics. A plunge into an unknown world, comparable to the exploration of living being.

Selected work by Dennis Wojtkiewicz

About his work:

Ohio artist, Dennis Wojtkiewicz explores the sensitive nature of time in his oversized oil paintings of fruit and flowers. The transitory nature of his subject matter is encapsulated, transfixed and glorified with hightened photorealism. Light and translucence make these paintings glow. Nature’s perfect patterning allows each painting to take on a meditative quality.

Nobuhiro Nakanishi’s beautifully complex Layered Drawings

Design Milk on his process:

He photographs a scene or object repeatedly over time, then laser prints each shot and mounts them onto acrylic. Change is captured in each frame, and once layered, they become sculpture installations. The overall effect shows movement and the subtle passage of time. 

Time is something that our lives are often dictated by, but something we seldom give much thought to. This clock will give you the time, but it might also make you think about it too.

Developed by NewMediology (Danqing Shi), Last clock is a clock app that uses popular slit scan technique to keep you in factual time, human time and remote time. Just like any other analog clock, the app has three hands: one for seconds, minutes and hours. The hands, however, are made of a slice of live video that gets scanned to the clockface. With different refresh rate for the three hands, the three time circles reflect the rhythms of the space at different temporal resolutions. The app also allows you to stream the last clock camera feed over the internet.