Tempus Fugit — It’s about Time: ‘art meets science’

In a spontaneous collaboration where 'art meets science', sculptor Duncan Moon will display his work ‘Tempus Fugit’ as a visual context to Physics Professor Michael Tobar’s lecture ‘It’s about Time: Clocks, Quantum Technology and the Quest for a Physical Theory of Everything’.

"Tempus fugit: time flies, time is against us, time on our side,
time and tide, sidereal time, the ravages of time, the test of time, just in
time, time immemorial, time travel, double four-time, odd time signatures, Old
Father Time, space-time…. time just is.

As a sculptor there’s a duty to space – to animate a space with
ideas. How could one solely occupy and animate time with a physically tangible
idea? Sand and stone, sandstone, where there is a reckoning of every grain - a
piece of ancient land that once was sea tells of the great migratory, ever-changing
landform in the massive time scale of geological life, where all of human
existence has only been a blip. Tempus fugit: orderliness, patina, charm and
chance; form subjugated by rhythm and pattern. After the fact there is the
artefact, after the artefact there is the artifice – and how we secretly love
artifice."

Duncan Moon is a South coast sculptor, painter, draftsman, designer, stonemason, writer and drummer working principally in stone and its cousin in the masonry idiom, stucco.

Professor Tobar’s lecture is part of the Quantum Road Trip, a team of UWA researchers travelling to schools and communities in the southwest of WA to inform and enlighten about ground-breaking quantum technology and the mystery of dark matter.