Siren Elise Wilhelmsen's knitting clock is no ordinary chronograph, as the passage of time is depicted by a single stitch rather than the movement of hands. Over the course of 365 days, the clock works, well around the clock, to produce a 6 foot long scarf. It takes a full 24 hours for the knitting clock to complete a single line on the scarf. The clock's shape is reminiscent of traditional cuckoo clocks and constructed of wood and acrylic glass. The artist states "the upcoming year is hiding in a new spool of thread, still unknitted." The physical representation and creative physicality of time is a powerful visual statement by Wilhelmsen.
The Norway-based designer creates other humourous conceptual pieces and installations that allude on themes such as sustainability. The knitting clock not only demonstrates the persistence of time, but the delicate process of a time honoured craft like knitting.
