A clepsydra is an ancient water clock, a way to tell the passing of time in its earliest form. It relied on the controlled flow of water either into, or out of, a vessel where the water lost or water remaining, would be calculated in relation to the passage of time.

This piece emerged from the idea of the clepsydra, in the form of an industrial steel bowl. Cement casts of fragments of ancient raised beach sit just below the rim, indicative of the future sea level we know can be reached again. A modern plastic ‘waste’ bottle discharges a stream of slime into the filling bowl. A metaphorical take on how modern waste and toxic emissions fuel global warming and contribute to rising seas.