Needs More Time – a somatic time piece

February 5, 2010 BY Aston

This past week, for the class Time, our assignment was to create a time piece based on or measuring one of the various bodily cycles: digestion, hair growth, skin renewal, menstruation, etc.

As always, my viscera nudged me into a clean concept suffused with humor. I immediately thought of a nondescript box with one long, heavy flagellum rising out of the top, flopping over from its weight, and slowly inching forward in conjunction to one’s own rate of growth. It’s hair.

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