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18 x 24 print of No.7 for sale at ericfreitas.com.

The final invested time came to around 1000 hours. The piece weighs over 100 lbs, and put quite a dent in my bank account. Sometimes it was tough to keep going on this one. When you're all by yourself, working really hard on something in an almost obsessive way, you can start to doubt your sanity. Now that It's done my sanity, the expense, the acceptance of the design or the sellability of the piece are irrelevant. It's a huge personal success for me to see a project like this to the end, and I'm happy to have it in my house.

Trust me when I say that there isn't a photo possible that can replace the experience of visually exploring this one. I've taken a handful of shots, but there's details, inside and out, that some people may never notice. The element of this clock that really made my arm work, and really stole the hours away, was the plates. I've never (and may never again) carved up metal that thick before, and I've never poured that much contouring per-square-inch into a surface before. It was a lot of grinding, but the result is a frame that has the accuracy of machining, with the free formed contouring of a casting. On top of that, I discovered a new element during the creation process that I really like, and will use again in future pieces. It's the clusters of screws, accumulating in almost barnacle-like fashion throughout the frame. It really adds detail, and texture to the surface; and it contributes to blurring the line between organic repetition and mechanical repetition. What I've definitely found up to this point is that the two fit very nicely together; better than expected I think. While I may make things that are more clear in form or narrative in the future, I like that the look of this one is a little more cryptic. You can't perfectly piece together a clock that once was, and it's not very logical why a given area is growing or decaying; it all just sort of happens in this strange flow of implied change.

I took the time to get a really good straight on shot of this clock so that an 18 x 24 poster could be made. I didn't want to have to enlarge the image in photoshop, because you end up with a soft image, and I wanted all of the detail in the gears to show up nice and crisp. To get the proper resolution for offset printing that size the file needs to be over 7000 pixels wide. If you own a digital camera you're most likely aware of how huge that is. I had to rent some professional equipment to pull it off, but it came out great!

A print of a full image of the clock is available in the shop on my site.
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600x900px 379.81 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shutter Speed
1/99 second
Aperture
F/11.0
Focal Length
100 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Feb 16, 2011, 2:27:23 AM
Sensor Size
7mm
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MadGeneticist's avatar
I hope that you continue to make these beautiful clocks for a long time!