89 Seconds To Midnight: Z.B. and Me
I am currently working in short-form video, 3D virtual spaces, and building a physical grandfather clock installation as a continuation of “89 Seconds to Midnight.” These formats allow me to explore time as a space that loops where past, present, and future exist together, refracting off one another. Time becomes something to inhabit and navigate rather than a line to follow.
My practice unfolds in dialogue with the southern folk artist Z. B. Armstrong, who spent years creating handmade calendars, “taping” lines in a devoted search for the end of the world. After an angelic visitation in 1972, he dedicated himself to tracking time as a form of faith, transforming daily mark making into a way to measure, anticipate, and inhabit the unknowable.
Armstrong is not a figure to represent, but he functions as a methodological presence and sentinel figure. By moving between physical objects and virtual environments, I am exploring temporal patterns, allowing lineage and meaning to continue unfolding.
After completing a virtual residency and building my first metaverse world, I am now bringing these experiments together through the construction of a physical grandfather clock for Art Fields South Carolina. This work is ongoing, attentive to time itself rather than resolution.
My practice unfolds in dialogue with the southern folk artist Z. B. Armstrong, who spent years creating handmade calendars, “taping” lines in a devoted search for the end of the world. After an angelic visitation in 1972, he dedicated himself to tracking time as a form of faith, transforming daily mark making into a way to measure, anticipate, and inhabit the unknowable.
Armstrong is not a figure to represent, but he functions as a methodological presence and sentinel figure. By moving between physical objects and virtual environments, I am exploring temporal patterns, allowing lineage and meaning to continue unfolding.
After completing a virtual residency and building my first metaverse world, I am now bringing these experiments together through the construction of a physical grandfather clock for Art Fields South Carolina. This work is ongoing, attentive to time itself rather than resolution.
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