The calendars we hang on our walls and keep on our desks have become more and more beautiful, interesting, exotic, and specialized. But most of them still show us one dimensional paper ‘representations’ of only one month at a time. Thomson’s Calendar does more. It projects the seasonal transformations that cause changes in the appearance of each fish bowl, while at the same time, recapitulating on a micro and ceramic level, the processes and transformations that characterize the creation of life, in and on, Earth. In the French Revolution the first revolutionary act was to destroy the clocks….for the Russians, it was the law schools. In both cases, the human instinct seems to revolt against the use of conventions that deny ‘natural reality’. Calendar reminds us that we all too rarely wake up to the realization that we ourselves have vanished behind the smoke screen of artificially designated units of time...Janis Runge