“Timepiece” is a site–specific and time–specific installation following the movement of light through a particular space. The patterns formed are marked with tape at 15–minute intervals. When complete, the installation records all the patterns simultaneously, with the relevant time marked on each one, and the compass orientation marked on the floor.

These patterns formed by light often go unnoticed. Here the taping of the light acts like chronophotography in that it allows the viewer to examine the flow of time as a series of packets. It presents a series of snapshots of the passage of time itself, but unlike a video any sense of narrative is interrupted as the viewer encounters the entire sequence simultaneously.

While the work captures the sequence of movement over time in much the same way as Marey and other chronophotographers used photography, it also goes further back, before even this technology was available. “Timepiece” and primitive sundials capture time in much the same way, and both raise questions about how the earth itself moves, about the nature of ‘real’ time and how more sophisticated methods of documentation can manipulate and corrupt our observations and experience.