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Time is Money | Wall Sculpture in Wall Hangings by Ansen Seale | One Frost in San Antonio
Time is Money | Wall Sculpture in Wall Hangings by Ansen Seale | One Frost in San Antonio
Time is Money | Wall Sculpture in Wall Hangings by Ansen Seale | One Frost in San Antonio
Time is Money | Wall Sculpture in Wall Hangings by Ansen Seale | One Frost in San Antonio

Created and Sold by Ansen Seale

Ansen Seale

Time is Money - Wall Hangings

Featured In One Frost, San Antonio, TX

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Time is Money is an analog timekeeping device displaying hours, minutes and seconds. The viewer infers the time from the relationship of the “hands” to unmoving index marks, just like on a standard round clock. Hours are on the left. Minutes are on the right. Seconds and index marks occupy the middle 3 stacks.

The design of the clock was meant to be a kind of visual puzzle, challenging the norms and conventions we use to tell time. As some employees figure out how to read the correct time, they could then teach others, thereby building community within the company.

The piece constanly moves and breaths as the seconds fill from top to bottom, and then collapse every minute.

Item Time is Money
Created by Ansen Seale
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Wescover creator since 2018
Time and Motion

Ansen Seale's time-based works of photographic and sculptural art have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and have been collected by corporate, institutional and private collectors. In 2009, he received the Bernard Lifshutz Award in the Visual Arts from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio and his work is in the permanent collection of the San Antonio Museum of Art, The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas, Austin and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Salta, Argentina.

Seale works with a special digital camera of his own invention. This camera has the ability to capture a vertical slice of the scene over and over in rapid succession, in effect, swapping the horizontal dimension of the photo for the dimension of time. Instead of mirroring the world as we know it, this camera records a hidden reality. The apparent “distortions” in the images all happen in-camera as the image is being recorded.