Rodney Glick
Clock
2004
Nail, Lights
Dimensions Variable
Clock is time stopped, two shadows cast by theatre lights of a nail on the wall. The shadow is immovable, held still, the clock always at precisely the same time, whatever the time or duration experienced by those looking at it but twice a daytime merges with it and it is briefly accurate. Clock challenges time is it static or is it that the common experience of the flow of time is frenetic and unreal. Is the nail clock signaling the real or absolute time, and is any disagreement seen between it and other timekeepers merely relative, a pointer to our presence in its past or future. Just as the Greenwich meridian marks a zero line on the earth, can this clock mark a zero point in or outside of time.