Accept & Proceed
'Hours of Dark 2015'

Accept & Proceed are an East London design team, who produce labour intensive artworks that illuminate the beauty hidden within raw data. Their works combine pinpoint accuracy with seemingly effortless elegance. The collective are currently in their 8th year of an annual series of artworks, depicting the hours of light and dark for the forthcoming year, entitled the ‘Light Calendar’ series. Each year the team challenge themselves to interpret annual light and dark as viewed from London, in a fresh and intriguing way. And they always succeed! Each painstakingly-considered piece pays homage to the wonders of physics, and evokes a sense of awe at the unseen forces that shape our everyday lives, far beyond human control yet stunningly harnessed by Accept & Proceed.

Based purely on data, this artwork represents the total hours of dark for 2015.
Days of the year span clockwise from the top of the disc, represented by 365 lines. The proportion of white in each line reflects the incremental change in hours of light throughout the year. In addition, the continuous zig-zagging line shows the sun’s altitude above and below the horizon, making visible the maximum height of the sun on each day.