Lights.

These are moonjars that are solar powered bottles that "store" the light and release it at night.




These are solar powered LEDs in bamboo shoots that light up the walkways.



These are similar to what I was trying to accomplish with my "Solar Planter." The planter uses plants as a reason to move and charge your lamp and forms a relationship and ritual with interaction.

These are digital images compiled by website information. I'm looking at methods that combine digital life into a digital environment or a natural environment. Every website has it's own digital forest and it would be interesting to be able to explore both worlds in order to change the interaction people have with their computers.


This is an interactive picture that is disturbed by real time elemental factors. The picture is distorted and warped in relation to rain and wind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDGnEaZhYk

"Chronos is clocks, deadlines, watches, calendars, agendas, planners, schedules, beepers. Chronos is time at her worst. Chronos keeps track. ...Chronos is the world's time. Kairos is transcendence, infinity, reverence, joy, passion, love, the Sacred. Kairos is intimacy with the Real. Kairos is time at her best. ...Kairos is Spirit's time. We exist in chronos. We long for kairos. That's our duality. Chronos requires speed so that it won't be wasted. Kairos requires space so that it might be savored. We do in chronos. In kairos we're allowed to be ... It takes only a moment to cross over from chronos into kairos, but it does take a moment. All that kairos asks is our willingness to stop running long enough to hear the music of the spheres." -- Sarah Ban Breathnach

I want to create an even balance of "Kairos" and "Chronos" or at least a way that each better informs the other. It's a balance of spirituality and connection with nature and the unknown with "man-made clock time." Clocks were once revered as great accomplishments, an art because of their precision and accuracy. It represented man's control over his own life.

Phase 1: Research

http://www.woebken.net/

Phase 1: Research

Nancy Suggested this reading earlier today and I went out and got it. It's about our relationship with nature and the domestication of the relationship between humans and plants. I'll keep updating this post as I read this book.

Organic Time

Culturally, time has become a mechanical burden. It organizes our days into numbered cubicles and compartments that can be daunting. Time is organized by seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. I want to address the psychological affects of time and produce an appliance that measures this quantity with a less blunt method utilizing less tangible, more natural measurements and ritualistic behavior.

I want to incorporate plants into my investigation. Plants respond naturally to environmental change and time which directly contradicts the anthropocentric values that have been instilled in us. Also, exploiting the beneficial aspects of living organisms will aspire to natural and sustainable ways

Time is measured through crop cycles, light, emotions, warmth, growth, color and other ways.