Spherical Clock

For thousands of years, ancestors sought different ways to display time. They used a sundial to see the time by utilizing the relationship between the sun and the shadow. Nowadays, more and more clocks are around us. The circular-shaped clocks are the most common.

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This is a work that discusses and challenges our current understanding of time. We can see the implications of time everywhere - flowers bloom, iron will rust, trees grow taller… To me, time should be able to be read from any angle.

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This spherical clock is designed with the concept of a 360-degree view of time. This clock is made of two transparent hemispheres - one with a diameter of 6 inches, and the other with 5.5. It could read time from both transparent sphere and hands' shadow on the black supporter. The interesting thing is although the two hemispheroids have different diameters, which causes the distances of each times' number to be different, it can still read symmetrically since I found the public center point of both of them during designing. For example, 9 o'clock is always symmetrical as three o'clock.