Ligorano Reese
Borrowed Time, 2023-2024
Set of 6 clocks with lenticular prints
Edition of 9 (Set of six)
Not available individually
14" diameter each
*Please note: Works will remain on display for the duration of the exhibition and will be ready for pick up or to ship after June 8th.
Borrowed Time is a set of six wall clocks representing Alaska, Hawaii-Aleutian, Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones of the United States. Inspired by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ annual Doomsday Clocks, Ligorano Reese altered Staples wall clocks to count down the impending climate crisis in seconds. News cycle images flicker and alternate between bucolic before and devastating after images of drought, wildfire, tornadoes, and hurricanes.
Ligorano Reese conceived Borrowed Time in early 2022, according to Marshall Reese, “Governments and corporations have lulled us into seeing global warming happening sometime in the future, 2-3 generations away, that it’s not going to affect us, but it’s happening now.” Nora Ligorano continues, “the clocks are insistent measures pointing to the need to take action before it’s too late.”
As the artists began searching image libraries and digital repositories for climate disaster documentation, the number and frequency of climatic events became almost overwhelming. The artists sourced and licensed photos from governmental agencies and photojournalists and rendered the images as lenticular scenes using digital mapping tools and 3D software.