Clock by Kate Owen (designer) with Hugh Grace (letter-carver)

Welsh slate

For this piece Kate chose a favourite passage from Alan Lightman’s book, Einstein’s Dreams. In her design the words become subtly larger, “as if to mock our obsession with the measurement of time.”

“In the act of remembering, we look backwards in time. We are set adrift to move about freely within our own particular experience of it. This offers a release from the here and now – which, because of the invention of the clock, ticks away more accurately than our own internal heartbeats.”

As Kate no longer carves, her collaborative partner Hugh did the precise, proportionate carving required. “Helping Kate has brought me into contact with new ideas and paths to explore.”