Clock Time
Artist
Clock-time has influence over our lives in many unseen ways. It can structure our days, keep us on track, connect us with others, and determine power dynamics. Who sets the timer?
What value is placed on your time vs. the time of those in your community?
Do you ever feel like you are running out of time, that you don’t have enough time, or that you would like a moment to last forever? Is there a distinction between work time and free time? What does rest look like? What impacts does timekeeping have on relationships or a sense of self?
Amanda Wood is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist who uses embodied processes to research her disrupted experience of living within multiple divergences. Her work attempts to create a translanguage that offers an alternative to her survival instinct to mask, pass and codeswitch.
Amanda makes space for material voices to come forward in dangling threads, holes, and glitches in printmaking, alternative photography and handweaving practices. These material and process divergences reflect her own embodied slippages between cultural, ethnic and neurodivergent sociopolitical structures.
Amanda Wood
Create a clock that is not based on a 24-hour day, but on how you spend your time.
Invitation
Write down the details of how you spend one week, noting the clock-time and a simple description of what you are doing. Think about noting the unusual things, the things that go unnoticed or the shifts in time. How long do you spend doing one activity before switching to something else?
Review what you logged. Are there any patterns? How much of your day(s) did you have control over? Would you choose to use your time differently? Does recording time in this way change what you notice?
Gather materials that are common or not special: cardboard destined for the recycling, crayons, found objects that catch your attention, collage materials. Use your intuition.
With these materials, create a clock that is not based on a 24-hour clock but rather based on how you use your time, a personal clock that reflects the transitions in your day.