The Time Compass (2013)
Time Compass is an experimental jewellery piece that imagines a device for navigating dreams. Inspired by the practice of lucid dreaming, the object proposes that time can be consciously manipulated while asleep. Each ring corresponds to a different function — to pause, advance, fast-forward, or skip — activated by movement within an hourglass form.
Remade from second-hand furniture, the piece carries its own recycled history, transforming remnants of the past into a tool for traversing imagined futures. Worn as jewellery, it takes on the quality of a talisman: a symbolic device that merges intimacy, memory, and fantasy.
Beyond its sculptural presence, Time Compass operates as a poetic experiment — a speculative object that embodies both the human desire to control time and the impossibility of truly mastering it. Like dreams themselves, it is fragile, shifting, and endlessly open to interpretation.