BIPM

This artwork explored the unlikely fallibility of some of the supposedly unimpeachable scientific standards on which we build our lives. One second, for example, grew longer in 1977, and a metre in 1960 was a different length by 1983. This sculpture, a north-facing sundial-shaped stack of recycled timber, is a physical manifestation of this juxtaposition between precision and imperfection. The sculpture is modelled on the thirty degrees travelled by the hour hand of a clock over sixty minutes, but the warped and fractured timber subverts any physical precision.

This artwork was part of the One Hour group exhibition organised by A Place in Time and supported using public funding by Arts Council England, 2013