First shown at Crib 5 as part of the London Design Festival and featured in Design Week. 'About Time' is a series of 14 large format prints that graphically represent time as recorded by the Gregorian solar calendar.
4 colours / 4 seasons, 14 sequences / 14 years, 168 layers / 168 months, 5103 triangles / 5103 days, 5369 points / 5309 instances. Infinite repetition.
The Gregorian solar calendar is an arithmetical calendar. It counts days as the basic unit of time, grouping them into years of 365 or 366 days; and repeats completely every 146,097 days, which fill 400 years, and which also happens to be 20,871 seven-day weeks. Of these 400 years, 303 (the "common years") have 365 days, and 97 (the leap years) have 366 days. This gives an average year length of exactly 365.2425 days, or 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds.
'About Time' is a graphical representation of time based on the recording of days, weeks, months and years of the Gregorian solar calendar. Realised by the rules of a design process of random selection and the CMYK subtractive colour model. Consisting of a series of 14 large format prints (1400mm x 1400mm) which collectively create the graphic representation of time.
Broken down each day forms a triangle, it's three ponits (month in year, day in week and day in month) plotted in a common grid (the space in which time exists). These triangles are then coloured according to season in which they fall (winter / black, spring / cyan, summer / yellow, autumn / magenta). The layering of each triangle builds the colour and depth that form each of the year sequences.
If you are interseted in exhibiting 'About Time' or would like some more information please contact info@cherrymark.com
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