Details

Title

'Sweepers Clock' from the 'Real Time' series

Artist/Maker

Maarten Baas (Dutch, born 1978), designer

Date

2009

Medium

Digital video (color, silent)

Dimensions

Dimensions variable

Credit

Gift of the artist

Accession #

2015.79

Location

On View - Wieland Pavilion, Skyway, Gallery 421

In Sweepers Clock, Dutch designer Maarten Baas playfully illustrates the passage of time. Captured from an aerial view, two men sweep piles of trash in real time for twelve hours, the piles becoming the hour and minute hands of an analog clock face. The artwork, played on loop, comments on the amount of waste humans produce and the time and labor required to move and process it.

Image Copyright

©Maarten Baas