Soil ▪ 2026.07.03
Compost Clock stops at exactly the right time, as intended
obxium ▪ press
Sæby, Denmark — The Compost Clock stopped on 3 July after four years, when its last oak gear was eaten by the worms that powered it. It stopped exactly when it was supposed to.
The clock stood on a piece of open land marked with a cairn, where anyone could stay and use the ground. Visitors fed it kitchen scraps, read the logbook and wound it when it slowed down. What is left is a square metre of very good soil.
“We didn't make it happen. We made it possible for it to happen, and then we waited.”
— From the obxium field manual
What comes next
- A new clock, built by visitors from the published manual
- The logbook scanned and added to the public manual
- The soil given away by the bucket to whoever asks
The cairn stays. The land remains open to anyone.
