North of Hayden Library:
Time and what happens to light as the minutes and hours pass by is the subject of Time Garden by Dale Eldred (1933-93). Three ten-foot, diamond-shaped panels on top of 22-foot towers break the light of the sun into an ever-changing spectrum. The Kansas City light sculptor stated, "The Earth turns, time passes, light manifests itself in ways we have not understood – and this high-tech sundial brings the poetry of light and time and color closer to the viewer's experience."
Time Garden was installed in 1990 and funded by ASU's Percent-for-Art Program. His installation can be seen in more than 40 cities in the U.S. and abroad.