Ana Jackson Chaves

Ana Jackson Chaves
Clock Mechanism
2015
Steel and wood
3' x 10"x 4"

Humans have been obsessed with keeping time for ages. We spend hours every day staring at wall clocks or staring at the time on our phones, but we do not think about what mechanisms are driving these things that we rely on so dearly. My fascination with mechanical sculptures led me to research the components that make up a clock, specifically the grasshopper escapement. Experimenting with mechanical movements, I made a simplified model of a pendulum clock. Instead of keeping track of time, this sculpture focuses on the way the parts of a pendulum clock fit together. I used steel and wood in order to combine the impreciseness of nature with the precision of steel.