Assignment 3 - Monumental Clock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOMihzoD3ps

Humans build monuments, to date events, to mark their times, to remember important people, to remind the next generation what great happenings takes place before their time and what great people existed before them.


Monuments age, to tell the people that time is passing, to tell the people that it is here before this moment, that it had withstood the time to tell its story to the current generation and will continue to do so until it falls.

Monuments age, to tell people that nothing is eternal, that everything has a start but also an end, that things that rise will eventually fall and that one day everything will return to its primitive form, returning to Gaia.

Monuments remind us, that we are small, that we are specks of dust compared to the earth, and nothing compared to the great cosmos.

But that is why humans are prone to greatness.

We can build monument that scrapes the sky, block the sun light and cast a shadow across the land and can even make a mark on earth big enough to be seen from the heavens.

Monuments teaches us, that there is no such thing as eternity as everything will come to an end sooner or later as we know it, but it also tells us that every end is only the beginning of a new start.