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.
This 8.75” wide by 7.25” tall slab was a mess, broken into 9 pieces. I reassembled it exaggerating the cracks by intentionally separating them and using a bright blue epoxy to make them more visible. A bright solid copper wire bonsai tree decorates the right side and the clock hands are branch shaped walnut.
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.
This 8.75” wide by 7.25” tall slab was a mess, broken into 9 pieces. I reassembled it exaggerating the cracks by intentionally separating them and using a bright blue epoxy to make them more visible. A bright solid copper wire bonsai tree decorates the right side and the clock hands are branch shaped walnut.
