Calon & Klosters Play Time
Sigrid Calon presents a new collaboration with Coen Klösters from NAB Laps
Interested to play with time and colour?
Sigrid Calon and Coen Klosters have designed a way to excite your brain.
Together they have come up with the idea of coded compositions, a modern take on a classic concept.
But what is it? A clock? A digital colourama?
It’s none of these things… it’s something altogether new. It is…
An object that showcases the passing of time using forever changing shapes and colours, creating unique compositions as time unfolds.
Here’s what the artists had to say about their work:
COEN KLOSTERS - NAPLABS
“I always wanted to make something small, intimate, for your house, using the tech we normally use/apply for large scale productions. Like an interactive painting you get to enjoy every day.
Time for me is something special, it's the fourth dimension! More 'traditional' art is two or three dimensional, coded art adds the fourth and I love playing with that extra dimension. As you interact with the artwork in your personal space, it should grow on you, slowly, as the days pass and time fades.
TIME=COLOUR takes away the literal and adds the emotional aspect. It also poses a question: why must time, and our relationship with it, be so absolute? Is that what we want? Often it's enough to know something passed, not exactly when.”
SIGRID CALON
“Time is a beautiful and special concept and something we tend to take for granted. We often don't have enough time, time goes too fast, be on time for your appointment, etc. I actually prefer not to call this piece a clock. It's much more than that! I see it more as an object based on time.
In the process of making it, we played with the different perceptions and representations of time. For example, one setting, which is called TIME=COLOUR, omits the numbers completely, however the passage of time is still manifested in the background colors. This creates compositions in moving areas of color. For me this is so great that we can display the time in color, has this ever been done before? I think it is no longer about whether you can literally read time, the fact that you have so many options and you can choose abstraction is the end all be all!”
If you would like to see more of Sigrid Calon’s amazing work, you can find her on the pages of the Lab Mag’s edition BUILD
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