Gallery: Museum-Worthy Clocks Meant to Change Our Sense of Time's Passing
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Italian design duo Formafantasma’s installation, *From Then On* features four large, analog, abstracted versions of clocks.
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Each clock deconstructs time in a different way. This pendulum marks the seconds with an old-school shaving cream brush. As the brush sweeps across a curved brass surface, it keeps the oxidization process at bay.
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Like church bells the two-saxophones clock plays notes every 15 minutes.
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Speakers installed at the base trumpet out the alarms.
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The inner circle on the marble clock is a cut out from the larger shape, and as it rotates, the patterns in the rock only line up once every hour, on the hour.
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The metal fan clock has blades that swing open and shut every five minutes.
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The question at the heart of *From Then On* is: What if, instead of experiencing time through numbers on a flat interfaces, we understood time through sound, or motion?
