Moon Clock
Shown at: Frith Street Gallery, London (2024)

Aluminium, UV printing, Acrylic, paint, LED light, Foil
65 x 65 x 13 cm

The Moon Clock is a device to tell the time. With the passing of the hours, it clocks the waxing and the waning of crimson moon-minutes. And so, on a certain hour, it may be a moment to moon-surge, an hour of moon-shimmer, another of moon-bleed, and the unexpected, though twice daily, hour of moon-rapture.

Or we could say, that at one is a surge, at two, a knot that simmers until it’s three. At four the skin begins to glow and then it blazes like a torch at five. At sixes and sevens we come undone, bleeding. And then at eight we bloom. Growing rapturous at nine to steal a kiss at ten, until we are drenched at eleven waiting for the midnight moon again.

All of these describe the ways in which the moon affects us, in our hearts and on our skin, altering our sense of lived time. Raqs turns to make a device so that objective, common time can be folded inwards to that place where the duration between blooming by moonlight and being drenched by moonshine becomes a legible passage.