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 I had two smaller slabs that had each broken in two and as I brain stormed about how to recover from the above catastrophe, it occurred to me that combining these two would create a continuous crack through both slabs. We end up with the eclectic 6” wide by 7.5” tall clock with a combination of natural and electric blue veins that continues through the lighter stone behind creating both contrast and balance. A solid copper wire vine hugs the edge of the top stone. The vine and the custom Godwood "flame" shaped copper hands are treated with a natural green/blue 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.
In this case I had two smaller slabs that had each broken in two and as I brain stormed about how to recover from the above catastrophe, it occurred to me that combining these two would create a continuous crack through both slabs. We end up with the eclectic 6” wide by 7.5” tall clock with a combination of natural and electric blue veins that continues through the lighter stone behind creating both contrast and balance. A solid copper wire vine hugs the edge of the top stone. The vine and the custom Godwood "flame" shaped copper hands are treated with a natural green/blue patina.
