The Due Tower hosts the sand dial clock which has no time on the external face and you are required to stand and look over and inwards to the tower where the timekeeper is revealed. The towers host time and distance. With its flicking motion leaves a trace of each second that passes.
Placing the tower at the edge of the rocks was chosen as a metaphor for the lighthouse. George Kubler in The Shape of Time describes the flashes of the lighthouse as the instant between the ticking of a clock….. the void between events. (Kubler, 1962).
The void between events, in between the ordinary and extraordinary, is sacred. It is an experience of different temporal settings between nature and I. Due Tower time is not marking real-time, it is time through change, and its experience is in relationship with the environment within human experience and the universe outside of human experience.
Although the specific location was chosen, climbing across the rocks, space was insignificant and it was as if nature and I were coalescing through sacred time. The dramaturgy provides a context for how one experiences different levels in relation to attending time.
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2022
