This installation investigates the ritual of work, our attitudes towards it and the power of the workplace whilst specifically addressing issues of conformity, including the rigid and restrictive time boundaries, often traditionally enforced.

I set out to investigate relationships between time and emotion, specifically making links to the obsessive and repetitive use of old-fashioned clocking-in and out machines, cards and hand written text. Viewers (including mac visitors, me, the artist and mac staff) are encouraged to engage and participate with the project by ‘clocking-in’ on an installed machine and writing how work makes them feel on a clocking-in card. These cards are then displayed alongside a photographic series of now redundant machines, in order to represent the contrast of what work was then and is now.

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