sensory clocks
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YEAR: 2012
MATERIAL: COWHIDE, timber, cardboard
PHOTOGRAPHY: JC YEH
This project investigates the essence of Time and the science of sensation. Cognition as artifact - translating the time on a clock from numbers to subjective senses of touch, sound, smell and kinesthesia - portrayed as a series of " clocks " that transmit the motion of time in non-visual information.
Cuckoo Clock / Sense of Smell
Time present by the different scent which spread out by the clock every hour.
Flip Clock / Sense of Touch
Time changed every minute by flipping the panel which printed with the distinctive textures.
Pocket Watch / Sense of Hearing
Small portable watch which present time by the constantly changes of the tick-tock sound.
Grandpa's Clock / Kinesthesia (awareness of the position and movement)
Time perceived by pulling the chain to feel the changing weight and length.