Clockworks
by Ira Marcus
Title
Clockworks
Artist
Ira Marcus
Medium
Photograph
Description
1905 Seth Thomas Model 17 clock work for the bell in the Elgin National Watch Factory clock tower. Approximately 70 were made and only about 20 are still known to exist.This image compresses the complexity of the gears and other moving parts from their three-dimensional world and flattens them into a series of patterns and overlapping circles. The late afternoon sunlight emphasizes the richness and variety of colors, and textures, of the different parts.This object is in the Elgin History Museum collection. This image is included in the Art in Artifacts Exhibit.
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May 24th, 2020
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