SIZE: 39" x 14"
WEIGHT: 5.3 pounds
For over five hundred years, the Torre dell'Orologio — the Clock Tower of St. Mark's — has stood at the entrance to Venice's most celebrated piazza. So reliable was this clock that in 1858, the city designated it the official timekeeper of the entire city, the standard to which every other clock was set. But what the city didn't say out loud was that the inner mechanism had been in near-constant crisis. A permanent timekeeper was appointed to live inside the tower. His sole purpose was to keep the clock on time while keeping the chaos behind it hidden from the world, and for centuries, the face of Torre dell'Orologio has kept perfect time. When I found this guitar at a flea market, it looked fine on the surface, but structurally, it was damaged. It struck me as a perfect metaphor: on the face of it, we often appear perfectly functional to the world — like this clock — while inside, our bodies and minds can be complicated, messy, and dysfunctional — like the mechanism inside. This assemblage features lighting that illuminates the clock and the clockworks from within, while exterior lighting on the back of the guitar casts a warm glow on the wall behind it.
THIS ITEM IS ON HOLD
SIZE: 39" x 14"
WEIGHT: 5.3 pounds
For over five hundred years, the Torre dell'Orologio — the Clock Tower of St. Mark's — has stood at the entrance to Venice's most celebrated piazza. So reliable was this clock that in 1858, the city designated it the official timekeeper of the entire city, the standard to which every other clock was set. But what the city didn't say out loud was that the inner mechanism had been in near-constant crisis. A permanent timekeeper was appointed to live inside the tower. His sole purpose was to keep the clock on time while keeping the chaos behind it hidden from the world, and for centuries, the face of Torre dell'Orologio has kept perfect time. When I found this guitar at a flea market, it looked fine on the surface, but structurally, it was damaged. It struck me as a perfect metaphor: on the face of it, we often appear perfectly functional to the world — like this clock — while inside, our bodies and minds can be complicated, messy, and dysfunctional — like the mechanism inside. This assemblage features lighting that illuminates the clock and the clockworks from within, while exterior lighting on the back of the guitar casts a warm glow on the wall behind it.
THIS ITEM IS ON HOLD
