Traditional thoughts on time and location are challenged in a new exhibition opening today at Trisolini Gallery.
Breaking Geographic & Time Conventions: the idiosyncratic space of a world traveler
a Graduate Thesis Sculpture Exhibition by YuanYuan Li, will be displayed through June 12. Admission to the gallery in Baker University Center is free and open to the public.
The exhibition uses computer programs as well as crochet sculptures to create a calendar, map and planet that demonstrate Li's idea of a person's internal time and location.
Li, who moved from China to the United States three years ago, said she found herself trying to keep track of her friends' and family's schedule in China, in addition to her new schedule in America.
My schedule was totally chaos at the time Li said.
This led her to come up with the concept of each person having his or her own unique calendar and internal time zone.
In Li's project, a day starts at the midpoint between the time a person wakes up and falls asleep, and ends at the midpoint between the time a person falls asleep and wakes up. The start time of a day is 0:00, which corresponds to a time zone that may be in a different location than the person's physical location.
Because my sleep time is different every day I move to a different time zone
every day
Li said.
The more time a person spends in one time zone, the larger that location becomes on a world map.
Li kept track of her own data every day for one year to create her own calendar, map and crochet globe. Visitors will also be able to input their sleep and wake times into Li's website to generate their own internal times and locations.
(I hope visitors see that) something very normal can have a new definition for themselves
Li said.
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Lynsie Dickerson
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