Infinity Clock,
This work uses the sequence as both mask and clock. Each zone of the image corresponds to a term in the sequence; each term determines how long that zone spent buried in earth, processed by soil, moisture, and microorganisms rather than by any darkroom chemistry. The center — zero, one — is closest to the viewer and closest to the original image. Move outward and the terms grow, the numerals crowd, the color deepens and degrades. The work is physically deeper where time has acted longer.
The base image is open sky — the oldest human symbol for the infinite — and the Fibonacci sequence becomes the instrument that lets soil, time, and microorganisms act on it directly. The result investigates the threshold between biology and symbolic human language: an image and an object that enacts infinity rather than just depicting it.
Seen head-on, it is a flat image. Seen from the side, it is a topographic landscape of time. The sequence did not bury itself — it organized the soil’s action on the negative. That is the difference between discovery and use, and it may be smaller than we think. The work functions as a meditation device: a way of standing still inside a forever now.
Infinity Clock, Sky Edition, Part 1 (Preview image)
Archival Pigment Print Collage, Wood and Earth Mounted on Dibond
H×W | Circumference | D min | Hmax |
|---|---|---|---|
20×20 | 15¼ | 1/8 | 3/4 |
40×40 | 30.5 | 1/4 | 2 1/4 |
60×60 | 45.75 | 3/8 | 3 3/8 |