Circadian Bloom

Circadian Bloom is an artwork and clock by Anna Ridler that merges human and non human ways of telling time, Inspired by Carl Linnaeus’s concept of a flower clock, a planted garden that would tell the time through the circadian rhythms of plants. Alongside the visuals runs a responsive, seven-channel soundscape by William Marsey. Constructed using a series of complex algorithms and working with a machine that can keep time to an atomic level, the work obscures this accuracy and invites the viewer and listener to contemplate other ways of telling time and how time works.