Seeing that I’ve been home in newcastle for a short amount of time i took the opportunity to catch up with Steve Legget who works in the Laing art gallery Newcastle. Steve’s a good old friend and writes allot of electronic music which is well worth a listen to if you like cleverly sampled ambient tunes. Upon meeting steve he took me straight to one of the galleries upstairs and showed me this!
Going though the door initially i couldn’t tell what it was but it looked very smart, upon closer inspection i realised that each of the black things in the muddle of the white squares were clock mechanisms. And looking even closer i saw that some of them had the second had on them and were ticking merrily away with a tinly piece of pencil lead hanging off the end of the second hand whoch drew beautiful spiragraph’esque organic pattens with the ticking motion.
Each pencil pendant was a little different to the other and the slight undulations in the floor showed up through the pencil. Steve was telling me that each week the artist comes in and adds another row of hanging pencil leds onto the clocks so each row ends up being one week younger than the previous which shows up through the definition of the drawn circles. Its such a brilliant and beautifully simple idea its well worth a visit if your in the area. The piece is called Timecasting Nick Kennedy, a more detailed writeup can be found here LoraCollinsArt
