Unveiled on June 25, 2003, this sculpture is the first work of art to be commissioned for the campus of University of British Columbia since 1976. Millennial Time Machine is a 19th century, horse drawn landau, whose carriage has been converted into a camera obscura. The camera obscura, which produces an image that is upside down and reversed, was an influential precursor to the modern, multi-lens camera. During the late 1500s to 1800s, the camera obscura was used as a model for explaining human vision and it stood as a model, in both rational and empiricist thought, of how observation leads to truthful inferences about the world. It was widely used as an instrument of scientific inquiry, artistic practice, and popular entertainment.

Millennial Time Machine is housed in a glass walled pavilion at the south-west corner of Main Mall and Memorial Road on the campus of the University of British Columbia. Positioned to overlook the landscaped bowl between Koerner Library and Main Library, the camera obscura focuses on a young sequoia tree that will grow to maturity.
at the Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, B.C.