Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima fuses technology with a Buddhist's appreciation for time, existence and the mutability of experience. He uses advanced technology and mathematics to convey universal concerns over life, death, and the passage of time.

In Time in Blue No. 8, Miyajima reduces his usual monumentally scaled sculptures to something more domestic in scale, heightening the intimacy of the relationship between the work and the viewer. A sheer, reflective black mirror surface is illuminated by a steady dance of numbers, cycling perpetually through 1 and 9. The number zero looms over the piece by its absence, and the viewer is drawn into the mesmerizing loop, marked by the light dramat...