Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Lane Shordee, Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett, "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," 2018
hourglasses, brass, steel, electronics, sandstone. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Installed at cSPACE King Edward, Calgary, Canada.
A site-specific art installation, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, that visualizes the passage of time has opened at the historic King Edward School in Calgary.
It features 105 hourglasses that are suspended overhead – one for each year from the building’s construction in 1912 until it reopened as cSPACE King Edward in 2017.
Half the hourglasses measure universal time like a clock, and half measure personal increments of time collected from the public, such as "the time it take to call mom" or the time it takes to realize it was just a dream and you are no longer lying next to me."
Visitors can read brass tags attached to various hourglasses to understand the increments of time being measured.
Lane Shordee, Wayne Garrett and Caitlind r.c. Brown (photo by Keith Carlsen)
Sand in the hand-blown hourglasses comes from sandstone bricks collected during cSPACE’s renovations that were later smashed and ground.
The sand tracks periods of time up to four hours in length and the hourglasses measure from five inches to two feet in height.
Every so often, different hourglasses flip, their movement tracked and controlled by motors, sensors and microcomputers.
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow was made by Lane Shordee, Caitlind r.c. Brown and Wayne Garrett.
Source: www.yesterday-today-tomorrow.org
