Ring Two: Time Machine

March 2026, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

10ft x 10ft x 2ft

Stainless steel, rocks (various)

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Time passes faster in the mountains than it does at sea level. It is not just the clocks that slow down: lower down, all processes are slower. Ultimately, time moves slower in stronger gravitational fields. A mass slows down time around itself. The Earth is a large mass and slows down time in its vicinity. It does so more in the plains and less in the mountains, because the plains are closer to it. The Earth is a planet dominated by solid rock and metal. Our vicinity to rocks change our perception of time

 

The space between different time perceptions has been measured down to a scale of 33 centimeters. Only 33 centimeters away from you and from me is a different experience of time.

 

This space holds all of our time experiences collectively. Each of us placing a rock at a vertex, we establish our experience of time. With 33 centimeters between each other, acknowledging that no experience is alike. It is only when the experiences are connected and we meet each other in this place, do we become “the school.” 

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I could only stand still

When I was in multiple places at once

A corner that was made on purpose

 

Rocks for shoes

 

Time jumping in process

I’m still still

was and will be, together

 

Time places rocks

 

A front view of the sunset

Mountains broken into pieces

Only one side gets a tan

 

I can’t lift this rock

 

Gravity bested by centimeters

Seems nonmoveable

Fated to an experience of time

 

I find the heaviest thing I can find 

 

Turning it over in my hand

If time is slower, 

Do I get more of it?

 

There are so many rocks.