The mind creates both the beauty we long for and the pain we try to outrun. It takes courage to face all of it. That courage is a skill, and like all skills, it can be learned. My work is an invitation to begin.
The world needs it.
Slide to reveal the two sides of the clock (minutes + hours)
The Clock
A meditation on social norms, oppression, division, control, and the myth of gendered traits.
Wall-mounted object
Recycled two-sided clock
32 × 27 × 9.5 cm
2019
A double-faced platform clock, stripped of its numbers. On one side, only the hour hand remains. On the other, only the minute hand. In this altered state, The Clock becomes a study in division — not of time, but of identity.
Drawing from their lived experience as a non-binary person, the artist reframes a utilitarian object to expose the dangers of categorising human traits as exclusively “masculine” or “feminine.” Just as hours and minutes are inseparable in our experience of time, so too are the qualities we assign to gender — tenderness, resilience, sensitivity, strength — inherently human, not oppositional.
The Clock unpicks the mechanisms by which binaries are naturalised. Its form evokes precision, structure, control — yet the modification renders it functionless. In its dysfunction, it speaks. A critique not just of gender norms, but of the quiet instruments through which society is manipulated and controlled. And if it’s about control, who benefits?
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Meditation
Separating human traits by gender reveals a social instrument we rarely think about. We adopt it without question, sometimes for linguistic convenience, often without noticing. But what is this instrument really for, and who benefits from our silent submission?
