9 billion moments
A clockwork, installed at the back of a sandstone, ceaselessly engraves the passage of time with its unyielding pointers. Each full sweep silently etches away a minute granule from the stone's surface.
The Now releases the moment from the future, before it fates into the past.
Beneath the clock's transparent casing, the artistry of its mechanisms unfolds. The heart of the timepiece - the clockwork and four coiled springs - are skillfully secured on movable guiding rails. The relentless, unvarying pressure drives the pointers deeper into the core of the stone. Passed moments drop and vanish in the vastness of the ground below.
0 million moments
With the putting into operation, the pointers start to incessantly ablate sand from the surface. No rotation resembles another.
4 billion moments
Spirally the pointers dig deeper into the stone. The dissolved sand corns deposit in the memory for a while, before some of them sink into full oblivion.
9 billion moments
After a period of seven years, the stone is fully pierced and the block can be replaced as a symbol for a new stage in life.
9 billion moments
A clockwork, installed at the back of a sandstone, keeps incessantly digging its pointers into the volume. With each rotation a little more sand gets dissolved from the surface.
The present liberates the moments from the future, before they disappear irrevocably in the past.
The transparent housing reveals the functionality of the instrument. The clockwork and four springs are moveably mounted on guiding rails. The steady pressure pulls the pointers deeper and deeper into the stone. Passed moments drop out of the memory and vanish in the vastness of the floor.
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0 million moments
With the putting into operation, the pointers start to incessantly ablate sand from the surface. No rotation resembles another.
4 billion moments
Spirally the pointers dig deeper into the stone. The dissolved sand corns deposit in the memory for a while, before some of them sink into full oblivion.
9 billion moments
After a period of seven years, the stone is fully pierced and the block can be replaced as a symbol for a new stage in life.