Time-Lapse

The Art of Time, Light, and Stillness

While SY-NK sculptures express form through space, the Time-Lapse collection explores form through time. These video and photographic works document the evolving relationships between light, weather, plants, and structure — primarily in the urban gardens designed by Halsted Welles Associates.

Each piece is a meditation on stillness in motion — offering a slowed-down way of seeing the living systems we move through every day.

“Time doesn’t just pass. It shapes. It reveals. It heals. These works are about noticing.” — Halsted s Welles

Now Available

Selections from the Time-Lapse collection are now available for:

  • Purchase (as framed stills)

  • Licensing (video content)

  • Display (as digital installations or traveling exhibit components)

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Short-Form Videos

These cinematic recordings span hours, days, and seasons — edited into meditative pieces that invite deep observation.

Featured works include:

  • Four Seasons in Four Dimensions (22 min)
    Edited to the score by Georgia Shreve, premiered at Zankel Hall, May 5, 2018

  • Four Seasons (Abridged) (10 min)
    A shorter version highlighting core transitions and moods

  • The Window (runtime: TBD)

  • Townhouse Deck

  • Two Moon Terrace

  • Waiting for Dawn

  • A View West

Each film explores a different garden, angle, or light condition in the Manhattan environments of HWA.

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Tablet Videos (Bound Media Books)

A rare and poetic format: bound video volumes that open like a book, playing preloaded cinematic meditations accompanied by poetry and garden plans.

Each 10.5" x 14" bound volume includes:

  • Embedded screen (tablet format)

  • Introductory text by poet Anthony Brandt

  • Fold-out plan view of the garden site

The titles in the series are Canyon Shadows, Ode to Bhutan, In Love with Daylight, Waiting for Dawn, and A Meadley.

Available as individual volumes or as a collector’s boxed set (includes preface, acknowledgments, and expanded garden notes in an additional folio).

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Stills

Still images are drawn from time-lapse video frames and arranged into diptychs, triptychs, or large-format single compositions. These photographic works capture transitional moments — where daylight meets shadow, and movement becomes memory.

Available Works:

  • Evening to Night — Diptych, 50″ x 44″

  • Day Light Blue — Triptych, 78″ x 44″

  • Bhutanese Court as Night Falls — Diptych, 42″ x 35″

  • In Love with Day Light — Triptych, 97″ x 57″

  • Courtyard Evening — Collaged Single, 86″ x 19″

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Traveling Exhibit

A self-contained, transportable exhibition of:

  • (3) Flat monitors looping up to (9) short-form videos

  • (25) Framed still images from the Time-Lapse series

Ideal for:

  • Art galleries

  • Garden and design institutions

  • Public atriums

  • Museum programming

Exhibition rentals include installation instructions and digital signage options.

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The Language of Light and Motion

Where sculpture holds space, the Time-Lapse collection holds experience — quieting the mind, slowing perception, and reconnecting the viewer with natural rhythms embedded in built environments.

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