Clouds Interior

Mathilde Vello’s collective clock Clouds Interior is part of the project Dream off, where she tries to provide psychological comfort to the worker and improve quality of life in the office.

It recreates part of the sky inside and refers to external climatic changes. The clock is composed of two sheets of pmma silk screen printed with the same gradient cloud pattern. By superposition, the two printed sheets create every hours random play of pattern, one disc for minutes, the other one for hours.

For everyone to be able to read the time, the clock is suspended from the ceiling, and an engine performs one rotation per minute, allowing it to turn on itself. Two different hands of clock in dichroic films change color according to their position in space.

The perception of this object is every time different and depends on the way and time you look at it. With this clock and as they would do with clouds outdoors, people look in the air and contemplate the slow changes that give them the poetic perception of time passing by outside the office.