Untitled (for the sun)

This work is a clock that displays time as a percentage of the passing day. Collection of the de Young Museum, San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA (LACMA)

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Untitled (for the sun)

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1999
18 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 11/2 in
LED display, light sensor, custom electronics

This work is a clock that displays time as a percentage of the passing day. Collection of the de Young Museum, San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA (LACMA)

This work is a clock that displays time as a percentage of the passing day. A wire from an LED display is connected to a solar cell or light sensor on the top of the building, which measures the light from the sun. The results are passed to custom electronics where the day/night durations are used to phase the work to the rhythms of the sun. Beginning at 00.000 at sunrise, the five-digit display shows the percentage of daylight already spent, reaching 99.999 at sunset. Then it begins again, counting upward into the night toward the dawn, reading 99.999 percent at sunrise.

Collection of the de Young Museum, San Francisco

Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA (LACMA)