An Operator with Measured Endeavors is part of an ongoing series of work titled Operators from the Cambrian Onwards. The piece conceptualizes silica gel as a time manipulator, a material that is used for preservation and preventing decay, and investigates its potentials in shaping time and matter. It establishes a relationship of transformation between the cabbage leaves that are sewn together and the silica gel that fills and cascades around the hole inside the cube. The set of cabbage leaves are changed once a week, initiating this process of interaction between the materials once again, in an attempt to slow time and preserve matter at a certain moment. For each unit that is hang two cabbage leaves are sewn together. At the beginning of the week the leaves are a vibrant purple and their leaves are wide open. As days go by, their color turns into a darker purple and their form changes; they shrink in size and the ends of the leaves slowly turn inwards.