"What Time Is It On the Sun?" is a conceptual video artwork by Lee Henderson: an exactly 24-hour-long, uncut, defocused recording of the Icelandic arctic horizon, filmed uninterrupted during the summer solstice and looped seamlessly.
The video is synchronized to your local time, turning your phone or TV into an abstracted clock—when it's 3:15pm where you are, you're seeing the sky as it appeared at 3:15pm on the day it was shot. The imagery shifts through colours and intensities, its imagery recognizable only during the few minutes surrounding midnight when the sun passes directly in front of the camera. It's a meditation machine for your pocket or your livingroom—an escape from the temporal minutiae of the smartphone and a space to contemplate a cosmic choreography.
The app features a Sleep Timer that automatically turns off the screen after a set period, and a Sunrise Mode that gradually fades up from black automatically at a time of your choosing.
