Andrew Shaw 'Clock' Silent Academy Storm Calming Festival

Clock
Cast Lead / Enamel Paint / 45 mm 85 mm

From this moment, every time you see a polar bear - real or represented in any conceivable form -  your time will be affected. Depending on the orientation of the polar bear that you encounter the alteration to time will vary. It is impossible to predict or prevent the nature of the time alteration that will occur in the moments during or following your exposure to the polar bear. However, your heart will align with a new gravity. You will slip conventional measures and regulations. One way or another you will feel it.
twenty-one-zero-five-twenty-twenty-three*

It is true. Today* a polar bear has been placed adjacent to the Greenwich Meridian. In the assertion that the polar bear is a clock we share a new standard by which to measure the things that we measure. The polar bear is a clock. It is a measure of infinite consciousness and things perceived as other or as self. From this measure we cast a shadow meridian, a place that is close but known only through glimpses, a snaking river of shadows and light oscillating between bardos. Along the shadow meridian all things can happen and unhappen and happen and be.