HD video, 1 min 53 sec.
Musings on transience of man made structures over time.
The title refers to a sonnet of romantic poet Percy Shelley from 1818, in which the stone statue of a powerful and proud pharaoh crumbles into oblivion under the influence of the sand of time.
Image:
Time lapse photography, 2D computer animation, compositing and retiming.
Sound:
Filtered audiorecordings of the inside sounds of a tree moving in the wind, made with contactmicrophones attached under the bark.
Location: Former Central Station Rotterdam. Tree at 51.544147, 4.814415 a58 near Breda