Love this work by Marioni, in part because he has achieved something I’ve been trying to work out with my white line – ie making it fly!

This is what Marioni had to say about the work and about sound:

Q: I’m interested that you said One Second Sculpture was about the sound.

TM: Well, it’s a sculpture that performs itself. It’s about making a drawing in space and about the sound – and about the transformation of a circle into an abstract form into a straight line, as it falls to the ground. All that happens in one second. So that was my smartest work (laughter). It’s the inside of a metal tape measure. That’s the instrument that I used – you can think of it like a musical instrument because it makes a sound. So it’s normally a tape measure is used to measure space, and I used it also to measure time. It’s about time and space and a lot of things. It’s a very simple one-second thing, but it has a lot of layers of meaning to it.

The quote is taken form a great interview with the artist which you can access: https://siteworks.exeter.ac.uk/interviews/tommarioni#onesecondsculpture