Gallery: Watch: These Giant Mechanical Arms Act Like a Sundial
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*Timepiece*, by Conrad Shawcross, is part mechanical chandelier, part faceless, room-scale clock. *Photo: Conrad Shawcross, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
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It's also, of course, a stunning work of art. *Photo: Conrad Shawcross, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
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It can be found in the main room at the Roundhouse, a London arts venue, through the end of the month. *Photo: Conrad Shawcross, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
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Up close, the apparatus can look a bit sinister. *Photo: Stuart Leech, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
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But in motion, those arms produce a delicate dance of light and shadow. *Photo: Conrad Shawcross, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
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It's not a proper clock so much as a way to recalibrate our sense of time's passing. *Photo: Conrad Shawcross, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
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Though it is programmed to create certain shadow patterns at certain points throughout the day. *Photo: Conrad Shawcross, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
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As Shawcross puts it: "With *Timepiece*, I’m trying to turn the clock back into a cosmological thing, something by which you could infer the time." And likely get a little bit lost in it. *Photo: Stephen White, Courtesy of Conrad Shawcross and Victoria Miro Gallery, London*
