This site-specific installation expands the Atmospheric Mechanism into a sensory system that choreographs fog, scent, and light in relation to time, perception, and embodied scale. At its center is Time Machine 08/18/2022–__/__/____, a programmable device that simulates the weather of a chosen day. The machine responds to my body as interface—its calibration, scale, and orientation informed by my proportions.

The work references William S. Burroughs’ concept of time as manipulable film—“You can run it backward and forward… You are God for that film segment”—and Charles Whitwell’s 1597 nautical hemisphere, an instrument designed to calculate navigation routes using the stars. These systems converge in the installation as architectures of memory: not fixed structures, but rituals of recurrence and spatial dislocation.

Out of Time and Into Space continues the evolution of earlier works by scaling the personal into the planetary. It deepens the language of change of state and Fifth of September through expanded use of light, humidity, and algorithmic time. The project treats weather not as simulation but as archive—an interface for revisiting emotional chronologies and the conditions under which memory is felt.

This piece sets the stage for Here it’s always Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday, where atmospheric systems continue to evolve across sites and sensory scales.

Out of time and into space (2023)

Built on site installation: Chalk, Graphite on vellum paper in light box. 

ARCO Madrid, Spain