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Machine with Concrete (1992)
Arthur Ganson

The human being is the only creature on Earth capable of building machines that can outlive their creator. The speed at which the cogwheels in “Machine with Concrete” turn is slowed down by 12 pairs of reductors. The last cogwheel needs two trillion years to complete one rotation. In contrast to this figure, mankind first appeared on Earth only a few million years ago. Whereas the everyday life of modern men and women increasingly seems to be accelerating, changes in the universe take place in time dimensions of billions of years.
Source: Arthur Ganson

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