Tom DALE
Sometimes, The Night, 2021
wood, glass, paint metal, sand and stone
82.5 x 30 x 30 cm
32 1/2 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
32 1/2 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
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Using what appears to be traditional methods of display and means of time keeping 'Sometimes, The Night' examines how we live currently with a sense of the inevitable and the...
Using what appears to be traditional methods of display and means of time keeping 'Sometimes, The Night' examines how we live currently with a sense of the inevitable and the impenetrable. A future uncertain and a past unstable.
The upper chamber of the hour glass contains a solid rock; Suspended and inverted. A dream like-mountain that gravity tells us should, somehow, fit through the bottle-neck of the present to eventually become dust.
A ships bell used to warn of impending danger, much like those now found behind a bar to call time on a drinkers night is attached to a splintered wooden upright in the lower chamber. Whatever structure it was attached is now gone as soon will be the ability to sound the alarm as the black sands rise.
Like the curse of insomnia, where we cannot escape in the present from the combined unspecified demands of the future by temporarily withdrawing into the sands of sleep, Sometimes, The Night' speaks of the need to contain these fears whilst also engaging with the need to resolve them in the time we have and the enigma of how to do that.
The upper chamber of the hour glass contains a solid rock; Suspended and inverted. A dream like-mountain that gravity tells us should, somehow, fit through the bottle-neck of the present to eventually become dust.
A ships bell used to warn of impending danger, much like those now found behind a bar to call time on a drinkers night is attached to a splintered wooden upright in the lower chamber. Whatever structure it was attached is now gone as soon will be the ability to sound the alarm as the black sands rise.
Like the curse of insomnia, where we cannot escape in the present from the combined unspecified demands of the future by temporarily withdrawing into the sands of sleep, Sometimes, The Night' speaks of the need to contain these fears whilst also engaging with the need to resolve them in the time we have and the enigma of how to do that.