Spoon to Measure Time

• 2004
• 2 x 12 x 4cm
• material : Glass

By maiking a hole in the bottom of a measuring spoon, grains of sand start
flowing through the instant they are scooped up. It occurred to me that
such a spoon could be used to measure time. At first I thought it would be
an easy way to accurately measure 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds,
but I found out that the size of the grains of sand and humidityconditions
prevented accurate time measurement. I made the opposite discovery that
measuring time with “sand” was different from measuring time with a clock.
This is the unique time of “one spoonful” of whatever type of sand is scooped up.

The times of one sppponful of sond from a nearby park and one spoonful
of sand from the Sahara Desert are different. The spoon unlocks
the “times” inherent in all of the grains of sand on earth.
The unique time of acertain type of sand begins to flow the instant
one spoonful of it is scooped up.

If you compart the structure of the spoon to the earth, it is shaped as if
the northern hemisohere fell and turned upside down at the equator,
traveling through time space to connect with the southern hemisphere.
Something is happening in the spoon as dramatic as people
in the northern and southern hemispheres suddenly meeting.