Raised in New Delhi, India, I have since lived in a different city around the world every few years, from my BFA in Providence to MFA in Chicago, and now to New York for work. However, despite my worldly experiences, I still find myself lost and confused in a world of different time zones. The visuals of this project are inspired by the UTC- Coordinated Universal Time, which serves as the basis for civil time today. This 24-hour time standard is kept using highly precise atomic clocks combined with the Earth’s rotation.

With the sunrise in the +14 time zone and sunset in the -12 time zone, I wanted to create a systematic manner in which these gradients start off, using a grid system that is in sync with the sky’s gradients in their respective time zones. However, they soon start mixing with one another, causing new permutations and combinations, and finally breaking that modular structure. Working in cohesion with the confusion caused by keeping up with different time zones and moving from place to place, I felt that a Rubik’s cube structure was the perfect form for this concept.