The Time Machine
From a sudden point, people started to dig the earth and build their houses under the ground as the first human beings did. It was warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer. The problem started in a city where people hardly saw changes of seasons. Before they felt the changes, they started to guess about them through the logic of numbers of the clock. These reasonable numbers started to dominate all the systems of this society. The misuses of the numbers easily brought wrong works of machines. Therefore, people could not accept any misuses or overuses of the numbers. People were bound by time. Knowing about the past meant they could construct better systems, and planning the future meant they put more oil on the gears of their machines. The machines were not stopped.
The Time Machine is a one day clock, which does not have numbers. The object is a rotating hourglass, which obscures the lamp in accordance with the time of day: It is brightest at noon while completely dark at midnight. The quantity of the light shows the time. When the hand is on the left side, the lamp is totally covered by the sand. Therefore, there is no light. Following the hand’s turning to the right, the lamp comes up little by little. When the hand comes to the right side after 12 hours, only the light stays in the arm without the sand. It is the brightest moment.
Date: June 2008
Location: London
