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 slab made it through the crash with minimal damage and only needed a small repair to the right corner. I exaggerating it by intentionally increasing the width of the crack and filling it with bright blue epoxy to make the crack more visible. The result is a striking green speckled stone with an electric blue vein, measuring 8.25” wide by 7” tall. It features a 3.5” clock insert and a solid nickel wire bonsai tree on the right.
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 slab made it through the crash with minimal damage and only needed a small repair to the right corner. I exaggerating it by intentionally increasing the width of the crack and filling it with bright blue epoxy to make the crack more visible. The result is a striking green speckled stone with an electric blue vein, measuring 8.25” wide by 7” tall. It features a 3.5” clock insert and a solid nickel wire bonsai tree on the right.
