The Right Answer

As you stand in Union Square, 14th Street and Park Avenue, and look up, you see a huge piece of art on a building across the street to the south. Sometimes there is steam coming out of the center of this piece of art. To the left of this art display there is a row of many numbers continually changing. Most people think it is telling the national debt. But in fact it is a digital clock display.  It tells the time digitally relative to midnight.

union square#2 Read it left and right for the time it is, and read it right to left for the hours remaining until midnight. Pretty complicated looking for such a task. it causes no small amount of discussion and guessing.  The title is Metronome and the artist is Kristen Jones with Andrew Ginzel. Next time there, stand and gawk.

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