TIME AND EMPATHY

An experiment in slowness. The observance of our act of waiting, this is a 5-7 hour long performance of cause and effect.:

Ice melts and runs down through a pipe.
The melt water slowly disintegrates a foaming cone which releases a different colour every day.
The next pipe is released by the cone and jumps up. A very slow ball rolls down the tube.
The ball falls into a styrofoam bucket, which pulls off the lid of a container full of water beads.
Water wicks down ropes and drips into the water beads now, which expand and exceed their container, and eventually tumble through a hole below.
The water beads accumulate and eventually get heavy enough to tip a scale, which releases a rope.
This rope tips a container full of viscous putty. The putty drips out very slowly.
When enough putty accumulates on a second scale, it pulls a rope which causes the legs holding up a globe to collapse.
The globe swings against a square on the wall. The plaster on the globe falls off a little more each day revealing the colour underneath.
The collapsing legs pull another string, which causes a part of a sculpture to deflate and coloured powder to fall on the ground.

The exhibition ran for three weeks at Christopher Cutts Gallery in Toronto in 2016.