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 on 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 the slab had broken into three main sections and I exaggerating the cracks by intentionally separating them and using a bright blue epoxy to make them more visible. The result is a striking green speckled stone with electric blue veins, measuring 8.25” wide by 7.5” tall. It features custom Godwood "flame" shaped copper hands and stylized diamond shaped copper numbers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 and a solid copper wire bonsai tree with weeping willow leaves sprouts from the blue at the bottom. The copper is flame painted to create beautiful color variation and depth. Flame painting is a unique art form that can take copper and transform it into a colorful masterpiece using a blowtorch to discolor the copper into many vibrant hues. Honestly, this is a far more beautiful clock with the Kintsugi repairs and it come with a story!
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 on 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 the slab had broken into three main sections and I exaggerating the cracks by intentionally separating them and using a bright blue epoxy to make them more visible. The result is a striking green speckled stone with electric blue veins, measuring 8.25” wide by 7.5” tall. It features custom Godwood "flame" shaped copper hands and stylized diamond shaped copper numbers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 and a solid copper wire bonsai tree with weeping willow leaves sprouts from the blue at the bottom. The copper is flame painted to create beautiful color variation and depth. Flame painting is a unique art form that can take copper and transform it into a colorful masterpiece using a blowtorch to discolor the copper into many vibrant hues. Honestly, this is a far more beautiful clock with the Kintsugi repairs and it come with a story!
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