The Deep TimePiece was a client project for Baume and Mercier watches. It is a watch dial concept inspired by the geological strata of  time and place. Deep Time refers to the geological time scale, in contrast to time on a human or biological scale.  In collaboration with two pigment artists and a paleobiologist, I created two dial designs, one to represent a speculative future stratigraphy of London. Another represents the geological record of a lost desert in Columbia known to local indigenous communities and buried under new developments.

​Lucy Mayes is a London based pigment artist who collects and creates pigments from matter around the Thames foreshore and urban waste streams. Catalina Christensen is a London based Columbian pigment artist who creates atmospheric paintings and pieces inspired by nature and evocative of memory. Both artists are part of the WIld Pigments Project, a global cohort of pigment artists. I consulted with Jan Zalasiewicz, paleobiology professor and author of books such as The Earth After Us, on what a future London stratigraphy and its pigments would look like.