This clock (and a few others) have a harrowing story to them. As part of my process, I had cut and polished a number of slabs and had them sitting in a shelf in my workshop ready to take the next step. The shelves also have a huge number of unprocessed rocks, so needless to say, they may have slightly over burdened. These poor plastic harbor freight utility shelves decided to give up on life and literally folded in on themselves, crashing rocks and these polished slabs to the floor in a jumbled mess. Many slabs were unrecoverable, but a handful broke in a way that let me apply the Kintsugi method and give them a second chance at life. Kintsugi (金継ぎ), literally "golden joinery," is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with lacquer dusted with gold, silver, or platinum. Beyond its literal meaning, Kintsugi is also a philosophy that embraces imperfections and impermanence, viewing breakage and repairs as a part of an object's history and a source of unique beauty.
…When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade.
I repaired the two small pieces in the kintsugi style with black epoxy along the bottom left side which mirror light quartz veins along the right side of the stone. This 12” wide by 11.5” tall clock is made from red beach granite, common in Maine, and has a large solid copper wire tree with elaborate root structure hiding behind the rock. It features custom Godwood "flame" shaped copper hands. The roman numerals are copper electroplated giving them a sunken treasure feel. All of the copper is treated with a blue/green patina.
This clock (and a few others) have a harrowing story to them. As part of my process, I had cut and polished a number of slabs and had them sitting in a shelf in my workshop ready to take the next step. The shelves also have a huge number of unprocessed rocks, so needless to say, they may have slightly over burdened. These poor plastic harbor freight utility shelves decided to give up on life and literally folded in on themselves, crashing rocks and these polished slabs to the floor in a jumbled mess. Many slabs were unrecoverable, but a handful broke in a way that let me apply the Kintsugi method and give them a second chance at life. Kintsugi (金継ぎ), literally "golden joinery," is the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with lacquer dusted with gold, silver, or platinum. Beyond its literal meaning, Kintsugi is also a philosophy that embraces imperfections and impermanence, viewing breakage and repairs as a part of an object's history and a source of unique beauty.
…When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade.
I repaired the two small pieces in the kintsugi style with black epoxy along the bottom left side which mirror light quartz veins along the right side of the stone. This 12” wide by 11.5” tall clock is made from red beach granite, common in Maine, and has a large solid copper wire tree with elaborate root structure hiding behind the rock. It features custom Godwood "flame" shaped copper hands. The roman numerals are copper electroplated giving them a sunken treasure feel. All of the copper is treated with a blue/green patina.
