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.
In this case this slab had broken into 5 recognizable pieces with a couple areas completely destroyed. I put the pieces back together using bright blue epoxy, creating extra space between the cracks to call attention to them. This coupled with the very busy 7” wide by 8.5” wide grey stone, crisscrossed with lighter veins and peaked with a more dominantly white area reminds me of a steep, snow-capped mountain. Sitting atop is a stainless steel bonsai tree with leaves. The clock hands are walnut, painted with a shiny blue/green epoxy.
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.
In this case this slab had broken into 5 recognizable pieces with a couple areas completely destroyed. I put the pieces back together using bright blue epoxy, creating extra space between the cracks to call attention to them. This coupled with the very busy 7” wide by 8.5” wide grey stone, crisscrossed with lighter veins and peaked with a more dominantly white area reminds me of a steep, snow-capped mountain. Sitting atop is a stainless steel bonsai tree with leaves. The clock hands are walnut, painted with a shiny blue/green epoxy.
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