A Drop of Water
2020
Sound Installation (Collected Items+Water [Solid/Liquid] )
Art, Space and Nature MFA 2nd year solo project
First Shown in "Marking Time" Solo Exhibition, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
How long does it take?
For a drop of water to drop
How long does it take?
For an ice to melt
How long does it take?
For a river to arrive to an ocean
How long does it take?
For H and O to bond
What does that time sound like?
我們已經習慣精確而統一的時間,甚至不太記得沒有時鐘之前我們是如何觀察自然韻律來感受時間。水滴的形成是集合熱、重力、表面張力等許多物理力量的現象,由於環境是隨時變動的,因此冰融化、水落下的速度也是無法精準預測的,許多環境變因都能改變理想中應該要固定的韻律。我將冰塊放在網袋中,正下方地面上放置墊有金屬片的塑膠容器,當冰逐漸融化之時,水滴就會隨機滴落敲擊金屬片,如同緩慢且難以預測位置的雨聲。
We are overly used to live by the clock time, so much that we may not even remember the spontaneous rhythms. The forming of a water drop is one of the earliest ways to measure time, long before people invented a standardised construction time for every worker who cannot be late. Unlike the clock, water dropping is the joint force of natural elements such as temperature, gravity, and surface tension, therefore it is not as controllable as one expect although ideally it should be. This work is a use from the inaccuracy of natural material. As the melting of ice cube is influenced by multiple effects, the sound of dropping water turn into an unpredictable tune, just like raining.