Pine box lid with hinged clasps, silver chalice, metal tray, glass jar with lid, cassette tape player, section of clock-face, magnetic tape, audio cables, wires, clock-hand, steel cone, 9V battery, plasticised lemon, soil, egg-shell, glass vial with mouse ears in oil, invisible thread.
An assemblage of everyday objects. All the objects stand on a stainless steel tray.
The tallest object by far is a damaged wooden box standing portrait-style on its narrow end.
A small, tarnished silver chalice stands in the cavity of the box.
A thin, pale-yellow spiral of dried lemon smoothly stretches up from within the chalice.
Behind the box, a metal mechanism sprouts thin, black, shiny ribbon; jagged lines and loops create pockets of space; drooping from irregularly-coiled wires and tangled around untidy unplugged cables.
One wire holds a small clock-hand, pointing vaguely at a section of clock-face.
The other wire holds a metal cone, resting on the lid of a glass jar which is mostly empty, except for a tiny white egg nestled in a small amount of soil.
Closer inspection of the metal mechanism reveals it is powered by a 9V battery and a thin glass vial with indistinct matter inside.
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A whirring sound persists but is regularly interrupted by a loud click every 15 seconds or so. The intermittent click occurs with the movement of a piece of the metal mechanism, which seems to move the two wires.
One wire lifts the metal cone briefly, only to drop itself tapping on the metal lid of the jar: It drags itself across the lid and rests momentarily before repeating the action with the next click.
The other wire, the one with the clock-hand, is arched in the air while the whirring persists. It suddenly lurches and clumsily stabs toward the clockface on the back side of the wooden box, gesturing vaguely towards the number 3.