Time Machine
Interactive Installation, 2024
repurposed metal lampshade and fire pit, steel wire, ceramic, sand, powder dye, wood
In 2024, I took part in the group show Limits and Demonstrations, at Bridewell Studios and Gallery in Liverpool, directed and curated by Ada Null. For the exhibition I made an installation piece which invited viewers to lift sand from a basin on the floor with a ceramic jug, and pour it into another basin at chest height, to watch it fall out, cascading over a suspended ceramic bowl back to the basin on the floor.
I wanted the experience to feel like a ritual, contemplative, but with an element of play. A ritual among other things has the ability to mark moments in time. A pause for reflection, it can even feel like a moment outside of time. A thought, memory, feeling, held somewhere that can be revisited again and again. Taking part in this particular ritual was a new experience for everyone who interacted with it at the show, but I hope it's nature called them back to those moments outside of time they held on to in their own lives.
The whole system is a circle: sand being lifted then falling back down, but the mechanism relies on human interaction, otherwise everything stands still. In this way the viewer isn't a bystander to the movement, they belong.
