Timelines

A real-time generative clock that refuses to read like one: the hour sets the number of rows, the minute and second drive the motion within them, and the background flips with AM and PM. What you see above is the piece running on your clock, right now.

Timelines treats the present moment as the only material. A flocking system fills a row for every hour; as the minutes and seconds pass, the lines articulate and shift, and on the turn of each hour the field resolves and re-forms. Day and night invert the palette, so the work carries the colour of the time you meet it.

Shown as a large-format outdoor installation at Method, and as a solo projection on the Jodhpur Clock Tower — a generative timepiece set against a centuries-old one.