The artwork is based on an analytic system assigning the basic units of time – hours, minutes and seconds - to the primary colours of light - red, green and blue. This association leads to a process of colour surfaces filling the space over time. This results in overlapping colour surfaces, areas where the secondary colours yellow, cyan and magenta appear.

A chronoPrint is a plot of one hour of a day, starting with its first second at the left upper corner, until the last; 3600th one, at the right bottom corner. Each horizontal line of a print displays the 60 seconds of a minute while the entire 60 lines display the 60 minutes of an hour. Each of the 3600 separated squares is itself divided into solid delineated colour surfaces. The process is based on the ‘American’ 12-hour system dividing a day into two periods (a.m. / p.m.).

This logic finds its expression in the application of a process which involves adding colour between noon and midnight and subtracting colour from midnight to noon. Con- sequently a complete white colour space appears at midnight, when all hours, minutes and seconds have completed, and a complete black colour space appears at noon, when all colours are reduced to zero. This division into two parts is formalised by a white and black background. Accordingly the prints portray a fundamental theme of painting: the relation between colour and time reduced to their most elementary expression.

From this parametric relation emerges colour patterns best described as chromatic textures of time.
TransCoding: the units of time to colour

the artwork also exists as installation of 12 Nintendo DS lite
the artwork also has been displayed on as ChronoTower, Brussels and at Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Gent