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Generally architecture creates a static frame of the world
we live in. All structures we create are motionless. I believe
that a time symbol must represent the fundamental difference
between time and space. It must be outlandish in comparison to
our natural environment. Therefore I am proposing a moving, changeable
structure which is in perpetual motion. Thus it stands for the
basic essence of the time - locomotion and eternal changeability.
There arises a paradox - creating a material object symbolizing
eternity. The physical world is transient; how can it signify
eternity?
What is not liable to the depredations of Time are ideas and
the human spirit, as well as our memories and dreams. This is
why I offer a symbol of two even halves - material and immaterial.
The Man, as he himself incorporates the two fundamentals, will
be the one to give value and contemporaneousness to the monument.
Every one will be able to enter the sphere and leave his personal
code in the clock's memory, and so personally "meet"
the time. This is how every visitor will become a creator of
the symbol. Actually the human being himself is placed at the
heart of this monument - the Person with no boundaries in space
and no limits in time. |
