The positions of the hands on the two clocks always add up to the same number: twelve – or zero. Thus nothing is moving, while the present is constantly being renamed, as we can hear from the speaking clock. The sum of the twice-named present brings it to a standstill in the continuum of time: here, the present drops out of time, as it were. This is, therefore, a rendezvous between clock time and eternity, which has no beginning or end, no movement or time. In his history of eternity Jorge Luis Borges writes: We read in Plato’s Timaeus that time is a moving image of eternity, and it barely strikes a chord, distracting no one from the conviction that eternity is an image wrought in the substance of time. Here, the image of eternity is wrought in the image of clock time; this, above all, teaches us to doubt the notion of a substance of time.

The Rendezvous Two station clocks 1985/2001