People Hand and Minute Hand

Photo : Mie Morimoto

People Hand and Minute Hand

  • 2009
  • 125 x 90 x 50cm
  • material : Steel, Acrylic Plastic, LCD, Computer and camera

I hung a clock without hands in the rendevous area at Haneda Airport.
Employing image processing technology, a computer detects only
people looking at the clock; their silhouettes are cut out and displayed
as a clock hand. They become clock hands that display the time is real time.
The second hand is changed every second, the minute hand every minute, and the hour hand every hour.

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I got the idea of having people’s silhouettes appear on a clock in a public space
so that they could gain a new perception of time and the time of day in terms of
their own body as the point around which time revolves. I regard the clock
as a mechanical object that becomes something embodying a soul
only if there are people to look at it.

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