How the phrase 'even a broken clock is right twice a day' inspired an artist to collect hundreds of clocks over the decades.
you get. But as Koenen explained, her clock project was conceived in absurdity. Should you need a little more background, a basic, she continues: “I suppose it’s a metaphor, for the drive of humanity to try to create a system or mechanism to capture and quantify nature and forces that are larger than ourselves.”On the other hand, she also thinks it’s just kind of hilarious that “somewhere on these walls, any time of the day, will be the correct time. You will have to find it, but it’s there.
But Koenen, in 1989, had few art-world precedents to reference, and no internet to solicit broken clocks. She posted flyers on telephone poles and handed out business cards explaining her project. She mailed press releases asking reporters to ask their readers to donate broken clocks. She went on radio shows at three in the morning. She asked friends, family and colleagues.
There is a long row of wristwatches, a bunch of cuckoo clocks, a grandfather clock, old flip-number bedside clocks, marble clocks, wooden clocks, plastic clocks, glass clocks, handmade clocks, industrial clocks, foldable travel clocks, clocks that look like the clock your grandmother owned for 60 years, clocks shaped like airplane propellers and toilet seats. Schlitz promo clocks and a drug manufacturer’s freebie clock that for some reason shows the face of Sigmund Freud.
Wall clocks, grandfather clocks and cuckoo clocks as part of a collection of broken clocks and watches on display at Design Museum of Chicago.
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