Sun Clock, Novel, 2012

The installation Sun Clock (Novel) was produced as a site-specific project for the new Antinori Winery and Visitor Centre in Tuscany, a subterranean building covered by a vineyard. A heliostat placed on the rooftop level catches sun rays and conducts them in a focussed beam on a courtyard below where they are projected as a light spot onto an arrangement of handwritten text fragments describing the face of a sundial. The heliostat is programmed in order to highlight the 12 fragments clockwise and on time. The architectural space is transformed in an enormous clock, directed by the sun — an opening into new temporal spaces and novels.

Sun Clock (Novel), 2012
programmed heliostat, text