The Union Squire Metronom is a large public art installation designed with a vision to reflect the "dynamic flux of the city" and nature of time as the designer stated. Each of the three parts convey almost the same message. What's interesting is that thought it's a meant to be a public installation, it seems that almost all visitors didn't get it. let's go into more details:
The Clock: 15 digits number supposed to present the current time in hours, minuts, seconds, and fractions of seconds then the other half indicate the rest of the time left for the day time. As it looks like a whole number with no space in between, it doesn't indicate that there are two different clocks here that gives two sets of information and one should be read left to right and the other right to left. It could be intuitively perceived if there is one space in between the two clocks, unless the vision was to present the impossibility of knowing time.
The other two parts may be well intentioned to be but it's so complex to be perceived. Which rise the question about using complex metaphors and symbols that might not relate to the audience's backgrounds.
I just see it as a waste of space, money, and visitors' energy.
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