Experimenting with Calendars and Clocks
See: Rethinking Time
Psychology of Time
theAbysmal 13-Month Calendar
the Long Times of History
Waves of Time
Time is such a sprawling subject that it’s easy to fall down a rabbit, whole. While theAbysmal Calendar is chiefly about opening up the possibilities for organizing our days, Moons, years, it delves into many different ways of thinking more broadly about how we relate to one another through time.
One way to explore, study, learn is through play and make art that represents aspects of some function of time, in particular the non-linear aspects.
There’s an opportunity to look more closely at our behaviour related to schedules, timing, anticipation, prediction and so on, and to find better means of collaborating that suit our collective natures.
See: Calendar Building
Calendar Gallery
theAbysmal Symbol
theAbysmal Mandala
Temporal scaling is one way to look at history – where events are considered in the short-term, at the level of individual participants, then considered at a longer-term, at the level of their group’s participation in the events, and so on over orders of magnitude.
See: Scale
History, Epoch, Era
Scaling Time by 24 and 15
As long as we’re considering Scales, there are musical definitions of time that can be looked at in terms of days, moons, years as well as Hertz and beats per minute.
See: Music of the Days
Musical Day Table
While we’re reconsidering our relationship with time, we could well look at variations of the 86,400 seconds per day, as you never know what might patterns emerge from tinkering, toying, and reframing our conventions.
See: 24-Hour Day
Although theAbysmal has concocted a variety of possibilities, the subject of time is so vast, and so familiar to so many of us, that this really on scratches the surface.
Time is art, so let’s play.
Rethinking Time 