Geological Time enacts a playful yet forced motion that propels us into the lived present. The soft clicks of its stepper motor punctuate the silence, marking moments of rupture and return.
"It's not the future of the landscape that gives rise to the land; rather, it's the land itself that repeats all future landscapes."
Geological Time enacts a playful yet forced motion that propels us into the lived present. The soft clicks of its stepper motor punctuate the silence, marking moments of rupture and return. A rock-like white resin fragment, suspended from the ceiling, gently oscillates, revealing the passage of its own internal time. What initially appears to be a familiar fragment of landscape gradually discloses difference, exposing overlapping durations and a time that drifts out of joint. As the past pushes into the present, its repetition is ingrained in the shape of the future.
SSG's Geological Time is rooted in the temporality of the land, offering a hand that beckons the community back into it. Their sculpture plays with the monumental and the intimate, translating the rhythms of the land into fragments that make palpable the forces embedded in the histories of place. It is the audience's active engagement that brings these forces to life. Geological Time transforms a fragment representation of Earth into a suspended moment of attention, a space where rhythm, perception, and layered durations converge, encouraging us to experience time differently and to encounter the enduring pulse of the landscape.
Geological Time's steeper motor is specially designed to lightly click as it meets the point of inflexion, transporting there digitally crafted rock endlessly through its own sense of time.
