drawing time
a wall installation that visually records
the passage of time
year 2011
category Processes / Machines & Their unique Results
commissioned by
curated by
drawing time is a clock that tells the time and by doing so draws spirographical circles on the wall. Each day two spirograph patterns appear. One complex outline for the passed minutes and a simpler one, for the passed hours. After twenty-four hours the device moves randomly to another spot on the wall and continues recording its existence. This randomness is just as the uncertainty of the future, leaving space for surprises. Day by day the wall fills up with the graphical patterns allowing to imagine the slowly overlapping graphical composition in some weeks, a year, a decade… A positive thought of long term planning and a belief in a future.
drawing time was initially designed on the occasion of the exhibition ‘This is My Forest: The Harvest Cycle’, organised and supported by Listone Giordano and curated by Barbara Brondi and Marco Raino. The exhibition was showing a selection of recent projects by mischer’traxler studio.
the spirograph consists of two circles - one moves according to hours and the other to minutes
the outcome after 24h of drawing
detail of the spirograph's pen
two visitors observing the emergence of the drawing
"drawing time invites us to think about the various means of perception through which all individuals record passing time and, more specifically, the concepts of growth, development, repetition and proliferation referred to a definite time span.”
Barbara Brondi and Marco Raino
picture of the exhibition 'This is My Forest: The Harvest Cycle'
sketch and explanation of the spirograph
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electro-technical support
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team
Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler, Greta Hauer
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materials
acrylic glass, custom made electronics, motors, metal, electronic components, markers
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dimensions
drawing time wall
58 cm x 46 cm x 15 cm
350 cm x 250 cm
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