This installation features three hand-powered mechanical viewing devices. Each machine contains a unique circular book, which rotates before the eyes of the viewer. The machine presents one page at a time in rapid succession, similar to the principle of the flipbook.

In this installation, viewers become active participants, even experienced operators, of the machines. They choose the speed and length of the display hidden within the device.

When an operator turns the crank on the side of the machine and looks into the small magnified viewing window, he or she sees a sequence of static events transformed into an animated process.

The faster he or she turns the crank, the faster the pages inside the machine flip in succession, making an event that is illuminated and active only inside the box -- only under the eyes of one viewer/operator at a time.

Because the cards are bound on a circular book which rotates inside the machine, the events which take place inside have no clear beginning or end.

Often, the first card he or she sees is the last card viewed by the previous operator -- who may have just left the machine, or was there at a completely different time.