00:00:10 (To Remember the Murder of Eric Garner)
bronze | 17.6" x 15' x 2” | 2024
The Time Ruler Series - These time rulers each measure the duration of a second at one mile per hour (i.e. at one mile per hour, a distance of 17.6 inches can be traversed in one second). The collection of these individual rulers into modular arrangements can therefore give space and weight to the duration of specific cultural events or moments. These rulers hold time as present, and insist on our collective responsibility to recognize, remember and sit with the significance of 'times' within our shared social conscience.
00:00:10 (To Remember the Murder of Eric Garner) is composed of ten bronze Time Rulers. Each Time Ruler measures the distance of one second at one mile per hour (i.e. at one mile per hour, 17.6 inches can be traversed in one second).
On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner, a 43-year-old African American man, was murdered in the New York City borough of Staten Island by Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer, after the latter put him in a prohibited chokehold while arresting him. Video evidence shows Garner was held in a chokehold for 10 seconds, while repeatedly stating, “I can’t breathe”, before losing consciousness. He was pronounced dead an hour later, and no officers were ever charged with his murder. This installation of 10 bronze Time Rulers is meant to hold the weight of this tragedy as a memorial in our collective conscience.
00:00:15 (The US Pledge of Allegiance)
dyed beeswax | 17.6" x 22' x 2” | 2024
00:00:15 (The US Pledge of Allegiance) is composed of fifteen wax Time Rulers. Each Time Ruler measures the distance of one second at one mile per hour (i.e. at one mile per hour, 17.6 inches can be traversed in one second). On average, it takes a speaker fifteen seconds to say the US pledge of allegiance. This installation therefore represents the weight or space that this ritual holds as physical space. The rulers are also spaced one second apart, so that viewers could hypothetically walk the pace of 1 MPH while reciting the pledge.