Weathering Time:
Clay as Chronoglyph
A site-shaped material research into raw clay as a storied matter absorbing and holding traces of time
Chronoglyphs are temporal matter, sensory embodied time that emerges in materials of our surroundings.
Forgetting how to notice and read chronoglyphs around us has shifted our sense of time to mechanical, divided and intangibly linear. While with a closer look, natural time is growing matter – irregular, changing, sensory and wild.
As a study of time as weathering, raw clay is explored as an absorbent medium that holds time. The matter unfolds along with moisture, light, heat, tone, imprints, debris, pressure, erosion – time entangled with the various places of observation.
The chronoglyph tiles have been left around The Hague to absorb time-place and evolve for multiple days, creating a variety of storied textural microscapes of time to be read.