Epoch
Permanent architectural artwork · 2018
- ArtistDavid Spriggs
- Date2018
- Dimensions4.9 × 1.8 × 3 m
16 × 6 × 10 ft - MaterialsLayered anodised aluminium, metal beams, and suspension hardware
- LocationHyatt Centric Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
- StatusPermanent installation
Epoch turns a vanishing point inside out.
Instead of pulling a flat image towards depth, its layered forms extend from an absent centre into the physical space of the viewer. Suspended beneath the glass atrium, the aluminium elements gather into a semi ellipsoid whose outline evokes the human eye.
An epoch is a reference point from which time is measured. The artwork translates this idea into a spatial origin: every component is oriented towards a single void, while successive planes extend outward as intervals. Time and vision meet in a structure that can never be grasped from one position.
Video Documentation: Epoch
Perspective after the picture
Linear perspective organises a flat image around a fixed viewing position. Epoch displaces that convention into actual space. The vanishing point remains empty, and the viewer becomes a moving variable within the work’s geometry.
The reflective metal changes with daylight, interior illumination, and position. As alignments form and dissolve, perspective is experienced not as a technique of representation but as an architectural relation between sight, distance, and time.
Epoch is permanently installed in the upper glass atrium of the Hyatt Centric Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. The building was designed by Rocco Design Architects, with interiors by Hirsch Bedner Associates and AFSO.