CHRONOMETER

To contain, to transfer, to care for, to feed...choking, vertigo, 
precipice, anguish, fear, silence, life, death, reflection, wait, time, 
vibration, odor, feel, half-light, breath...experience, consciousness...
Some of the sensations that come to mind upon experiencing CHRONOMETER, 
an installation composed of solid residue bails installed from floor to 
ceiling, delimiting a space in which only a narrow corridor is left, 
where the viewer circulates, feeling the choking from the residues that 
surround him.
Maintaining the walk, within this labyrinth of residues, he meets glass 
that closes his way through, where a photograph of a glacier can be seen 
attached to a black wall. Under the photograph of the glacier, there is 
a digital chronometer that indicates the passage of time. The pulse, the 
palpitation of the constant threat.
All of this listening to the stunning environment and marvelous sound of 
the sound of the chant of the whales.
This installation, site-specific, has to be felt, experienced, looked 
at, with just one person entering at the time, in order to isolate 
oneself in the silence of the architecture, composed by the bails of 
residue as a deterrent of any noise, in order for the sound of the 
whales to dialogue with the inner-self of each human being.
This installation provides awareness and educates with information 
regarding the oceans, their contamination due to plastic residues and 
the growing threat that this means.
I hope that this project will be a small contribution to encourage 
awareness regarding damage that human activity can do to our planet - or 
habitat - and create a consciousness regarding the need to avoid it and 
look for solutions...now !!!

The big industry is filling our planet with plastic, material of very 
low degradation, that mostly ends up in the ocean, which contaminates 
the water and affects in the life of that environment, from microscopic 
beings to large mammals such as whales and with that our whole 
ecosystem, mea- ning the planet that we inhabit, apart from being 
threate- ning due to climate change and deforestation, also origi- 
nating from industrial activity.
Chronometer is an installation that intends to contribute making the 
danger that threatens us visible, helping cons- ciousness about the need 
to decrease the production and use of disposable plastic and caring for 
our oceans, so im- portant to bio-diversity and ecological balance.
An important factor is time, since the industrial production os plastic 
has rapidly grown, along with the daily use of containers, bags and 
other articles.
For this reason, it is essential to raise awareness to pro- ducers and 
consumers of the damage that we do to our planet and the need to reverse 
this process looking for solutions that will protect our flora and 
fauna, our natural resources and the environment in which we live.
The time is now !
And, do you know how plastic affects the planet?

Denise