The Sacred Time of Relaxation
Bradley Griffel & Daniel Altzman 

Our art piece is made up of 5 pillars, 4 cows, 3 ideas, 2 motors, and 1 way to achieve this sacred time. We had wondered what exactly is sacred time in the Torah, and we believe that you can’t find it on a clock, but instead must find it yourself. And so we based our design on finding this sacred time. The sacred time we are talking about is the feeling of relaxation, which we as students can relate to wanting the most. An escape from school, even if small, is always a motivation. We found that the most relatable place would be our beds. A point and time where you can escape from studying, and just focus on yourself, but it isn’t perfect. To resemble this journey to our sacred time, we have the stick figure we have, resembling the usual person, who has to pass through a path of 4 red pillars with 4 golden calves. This is meant to represent the profane, as when passing through, there is no sacred time, but instead the work and judgment that surround us. To show the passing through, the stick figure is put on a ramp which is moved by two motors, with them being the slow flow of time, as well as the tiresome path up. As we also believe that sacred time relates to ascent, or flying. As when asleep and having nothing to worry about, it’s kinda like flying. A bed may be a solid surface, but when sleeping, it feels as though there is nothing around you, like you are flying through the air. As your senses turn off, you are just left with your thoughts on the loose, and with nothing to worry about, they can think freely. At the end of the ascent is a yellow pillar, a color that we associate with being sacred, like waking up to a bright yellow sunny day, instead of the grayish palate of school. There is only 1 yellow pillar in contrast to the 4 red ones, as sacred time is rare and exclusive, so there being not much of adds into the importance of it. And on top of it is a bed, the final destination and sigh of relief. It also has a bigger increase in size from the other pillars because of how it’s on a league of its own, and is more noticeable than boring days of nor relief. 

 

Our project isn’t done yet, but still varies a bit from the 3d model. The pillar stays the same, but the ramp will vary, since it was designed to have a motor in it, then we decided a more effective way to have something go up and down would be to use this lego rail that is a bit more complicated than 2 motors and one rubber band. We couldn’t model horns on the cows, but were able to cut straws for the horns later seeing as they can bend and are easy to attach. The ramp would still be the most significant change, as our design is mostly big pieces instead of hard to model small pieces. Though the bed we will put on the yellow pillar will be more detailed than the sideways L present in fusion. The only change in the meaning is that it will look imperfect rather than the impressive symmetrical circles and triangles in fusion, but getting to the weekend (which is what we portray) also won’t be perfect. The way you choose may not go the way as planned, which definitely fits how our project is going currently, but everything works in the end, and that’s what we want to represent.