Lisa Black, skulptur i form af timeglas, '435' (cd)

435 fra Hourglass series af Lisa Black (f. 1982), skulptur i form af timeglas, indvendigt med guldbelagt kragekranie og sort sand, 435. H. 24 cm. The contemplation of finite time, life, death, and beauty. Each piece resembles a traditional hourglass, but at the bottom of each glass compartment a gold plated animal skull is mounted. The hourglasses of varying sizes are functional, and filled with black sand. When the piece is dormant, a gold plated skull at the bottom compartment will peek above the black sand, in the opposite compartment, a full skull will be visible, suspended upside down. The viewer can turn the hourglass and watch as the golden skull is slowly consumed by the black sand, adding a Momento Mori element. Each one-of-a-kind piece is named the amount of time it takes for the sand to run through the hourglass.