One of the things artist Shiro Masuyama handed in to the repair shop before going off to Japan for a while, was a pair of burned out light bulbs. -They never last very long before they burn out, was what he said, and bang, there was the sculpture ready and finished for me of course, just waiting to be put together.

Light bulbs are one of these mundane things we never think about, but which are slowly passing the horizon of everyday into nostalgia, like candles and kerosene lamps before them. While candles burn out so quickly and precisely that their burning can be used as a measure of time, with a good quality one burning all night, light bulbs generally last just long enough for us to think of them as having a life. After filling these ones with sand I timed them to around 2 minutes, which I found a suitable quantity and worth calibrating after. I was thinking of all the times we say, -just give me two more minutes and I’ll be done. The hole between the two bulbs is cut in a bamboo plug, which is a very hard wood, but still soft enough to slowly, slowly erode as the sand flow back and forth. That way, if the glass was used regularly, the minutes would start passing faster and faster, just like these short two minute excuses tend to do in our own lives, as we grow older.

Object no. 3