Keeping Time

Keeping Time is made up of ceramic labels, each records one minute. In this case, I sat at a simple table with the clay labels, a set of numerical stamps, and a clock. As the minute changed on the digital clock, I used the numerical stamps to imprint the clock's time onto one of the clay labels along with the calendar date. Repeatedly, as the minute changed on the clock, a label was created to document the passage of time.

To mimic the average Western workday each of the five cabinets are a record of the 'work' period, which began at 9 a.m. and ended at 5p.m. When I was not present at the worktable, for lunch or bathroom visits, no labels exist for those minutes, and there is a space within the exhibited tiles to mark this time. The work aims to express the ability of clay and ceramic to capture, record, and ultimately archive. KT acts as a subtle reference to self - a basic record of existence, especially from the