Across art and film time is captured by motion and change. We use sundials, pendulums, the watch hand to anthropomorphize time into a tangible measurement, but our modern perception of time is not universal. It has developed towards greater standardization and precision to create congruity. While a clock shows time as a cycle, a count represents the progression of time. These digital time keepers compare different visualizations of time. The first shows time as colors moving in a cycle throughout a day. The second reminds us of the uniqueness of each moment in a progression that will last 8 years.
This timepiece cycles every day, the color of each arc a gradient from first to last light. It shows a traditional notion of time as cyclical. The full circle reapeats daily in an seemingly infinite loop. As days lengthen into summer or shorten into winter the diameter responds. Like Marey's chronophotgraphy, it shows a relative cycle broken up into its parts. The movement of the cycle conveys the passing of time.
This timepiece is coded as a chronology of unique patterns moving towards a definite end. At four frames per second it will take approximately 8 years to iterate through all the possible positions of the green and pink squares on the grid. Each pattern will only appear once so every pattern is unique. The timepiece can quickly reach the limit of a human lifetime. This understanding of the future follows the Japanese idiom Ichi-go ichi-e, meaning that a moment never repeats.