"sunbeam, nature's crayon; helium neon, invisible nib" displays a group of decanter bulbs,  containing a chemical solution that drips onto a photosensitive glass plate where I've captured the interference patterns of a helium-neon laser light, which is invisible to the naked eye.

I call them clepsydras.

A clepsydra is a water instrument that was used to measure the duration of an event, like the duration of a speech. It gives me the time of disappearance.

Almost omnipresent, these clepsydras are the first of my pieces where the image's disappearance goes all the way, leaving behind only the installation, the object, the conversation between the bulb, the blank glass, and the puddle of water.

This is the performance of a bleeding image, the trace of the laser fades and then disappears. The object, once everything has drained away, is nothing but a square of glass. The dropper marks a rhythm, and the piece, repeated in the spaces, follows suit. The viewer experiences it, both visually and physically.

It appears in the corner of the eye, focusing attention on the continuous process of disappearance, they serve as a reminder of the infernal machine that keeps turning.