A clock that rotates counter clockwise. Just as the Earth rotates around its axis
once a day from left to right, so does the Globe Clock once every 24 hours. The light – day and dark – night hemispheres show us how fast night is approaching. It takes 12 hours for each hemisphere to pass completelyand be replaced by the other.
The story is illustrated on the clock through the shapes of islands, which exist and whose forms resemble specific characters in the narrative. Their placement and size on the globe is fictional and determined by the time at which each scene is meant to be seen. There is a bird-shaped island that marks noon, reminiscent of the cuckoo in a grandfather clock. At 5 o’clock, a spilled cup of tea appears, symbolizing traditional tea time. In the morning hours, an archipelago shaped like the smiley face in our cappuccino brings a gentle reminder of a fresh start.
The feeling of the passage of time depends on the activity we did during that time, it is purely subjective and often distant from what the clock face shows us. Globe Clock is a collection of clocks that views time as a storyline, rather than a numerical entity. Time is represented by the flow of a story that reaches a certain stage at a certain time.
