IME—minutes, seconds, hours, days. We sense that time passes quickly. Some artists want to slow time down. They help us appreciate the things in our lives that we sometimes forget.

Look for time in:

  • The slow, laborious process of creating a work of art
  • The working parts or pattern of sounds that operate like a clock

From sunset to midnight, Krzysztof Wodiczko gave Balboa Park’s Museum of Man an entirely new look. The building is designed in a Spanish Colonial style referencing San Diego’s history. Slides with images of two pairs of hands were projected onto the ornate building.

Notice the tight fists holding silver knife and fork. Compare this image with the handcuffed wrists and hands which grasp the fruits of labor.

 Krysztf Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Project on the
San Diego Museum of Man, Balboa Park,
San Diego, California, 1988