4.) Temporal Instrument No.3   

Oak, acrylic, printed paper, found material

35cmH x 65cmW x 25cmD

Inspired by Alfred Gell’s belief that animal traps embody the relationships between hunter and prey, this sculpture gives physical form, using the language of scientific instruments, to that between objects and the perceptual mechanism of age phenomena.

Temporal Instrument No.3  incorporates two sliding portals, the upper one carrying a Fresnel lens through which to look out and the lower, a mirror, denoting an act of introspection . The oak body can receive biographic paper strips that show the temporal narrative for the object. The upper slider marks the state of the encountered object in its biography, the lower, its temporal archetype, or the state that carries most meaning for us (often its most useful incarnation). Translucent mood sliders mounted above the scale show sky blue when the encountered object precedes the temporal archetype and darken when it is passed.