Keeping Time is a speculative, artistic project that reimagines our interaction with more than human temporalities. It questions how our attunement to the paces, rhythms and cycles of other beings might affect our perception of climate change and our collective response to it. The installation centers on three interactive, kinetic sculptures which bring the movement of different natural cycles into our space. This invites audiences to shift focus from the standardized, social and economic paces of human activity to the varied rhythms of other beings. As participants explore the installation, they will notice that the movement of each sculpture is altered by human presence. Through this experience I hope to make tangible disruption that is occurring along timescales that are difficult to perceive and instead allowing us to directly experience our impact and entanglement with more than human time.

My third sculpture is Amphitrite, whose movement is based on the blossoming ecosystem created by whalefall in the deep sea. When a whale dies, it doesn’t just vanish — it descends. Slowly, heavily, it falls through the ocean’s layers like a drifting star extinguished, sinking into darkness. This descent marks the beginning of a rare and powerful ecological event called a whalefall — where the end of one life becomes the spark of thousands more. For decades, sometimes even longer, this one fallen body can sustain entire ecosystems. It offers shelter, food, and a place for reproduction in the vast, nutrient-poor deep. The cycle of decay becomes a cycle of creation.

But this cycle is being quietly disrupted.

As climate change warms the oceans, it alters whale migration patterns, reduces populations, and accelerates the loss of oxygen in deep waters,fewer whales living long enough to die naturally in the open sea. Without them, the organisms that specialize in decomposing bones or surviving on sulfides may vanish. An entire web of life and activity, built around this cycle disintegrates.