The time arrived. The hours ended, past and future does not exist any more. What remains is the present. This moment exactly, in this space exactly. Welcome at the present!

Keizo Morishita, Japan, 2002
jikan towa .....
limestone engravings 

"Jikan towa hitotsuno zatsuji de ari buttai no araware to tano busshitsu tono kokan dearu"

Martin Wieland, Austria, 2002
ZEIT IST ....
limestone engravings 

Engravings in  Mongolian language, translated: "Time" is the gap between the appearance of an object and the exchange of another one.

Rafael Bach, Brazil, 2001
THE GUARDIAN OF TIME
stainless steel 

A sand glass is a very old way to measure time . Here it is combined with a tool that tries to fix contents in time: a typewriter. But seen from a larger time frame, like the coming and going of mountains, a typed page is changing as fast as the sand in the glass is running. Permanence exists only in change.

The hand of this eternal clock shows always the right time to do things: NOW!
The word "now" is written in 53 different languages of the world. The hand itself carries a lot of scientific symbols. On top: 9192631770 means the number of periods of the atom 133Cs, to define 1 second. Then follows 365.256: the exact length of the year in days. The centre circle represents the Sun. Every 11,3 years the orientation of the magnetic poles change. The nutation cycle of the earth is 25765 years. On the lower part one finds the number 299793: with a factor of one thousand, in meter per second, it is the so called "speed of light". Above and below the Sun symbol are marks that define in the right proportion the distance of Mercury, Venus and Earth to the Sun. Other 5 marks define the Megalithic Yard: 1MY=82.35cm..

Turtles are a symbol for long life. Snails are a symbol for "having lots of time". Here they are in a parade that follows exactly the sequence of Fibonacci: (0), 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 44, ...   starting with one mother bird (1), followed by the baby bird (1), then the parade of  2 snails, 3 turtles, 5 snails, 8 turtles, 13 snails, 21 turtles, and so on.