Introduction

Topic and work method

How can the experience of time be translated into an object? The project Traces of Time is an interplay between installation, art and design. Using one of humanity’s most ancient forms of time measuring, the project depicts the passing of time through the impermanence of burning candles. Time is everywhere, stops for no one and each of us has their own relationship to time. The viewer is invited to take a moment, to engage with time, watch it pass, unfold and disappear. Using a conceptual approach to design, the main objects of the project fade into memory and only traces remain.

My work process was spilt into two main phases: the research phase and the design phase. In the research phase, I concentrated on finding out what the perception and experience of time meant for me. I realised early on that with such a broad topic and concept that it could be easy to get lost. I therefore, planned 3 specific time experiments (in addition to my general material and academic research) where I aimed to experience and inhabit time differently, with each experiment having a different goal.