I intend to make a film featuring sixty different clocks.
The piece will explore the passage of time, how we waste time and how precious time is. It will explore the distractions of every day life, which themselves could be the very thing we are living for.
Now I've never been good at explaining my ideas to people, and when I do they sound ridiculous, even to me. So I will opt to remain mysterious as to the actual logistics of the film, which I have imaginatively titled 'Clocks.'
For the project I need to get my hands on sixty table clocks. Clocks like the one at the very top of this blogpage.
This is where YOU come in.
I would like people to donate their old, unwanted, unused clocks to this project. I'm attracted by the participation possibilities that art can present. Featuring dozens of clocks, each one with a different life and history would, In my mind, lend more weight to the themes running throughout the piece.
As mentioned, the types of clocks I need are working Table Clocks, with all three hands (hour, minute, second) in full working order. No wall clocks, no digital clocks.
As long as these stipulations are in place, It doesn't matter how old or how cheap the clocks are or what style or condition they are in.
They don't have to have be alarm clocks with bells on top; as long as I can stand it on a flat surface and set the time on it, I'll have it.
So if you want to be part of this film project and would like to give your old clocks a new lease of life, now's the time.
Please email me at clocksproject@hotmail.com if you have any queries and for a postal address if you would like to send me a clock.
Best wishes
Steven
