While still at the Scotts Antique Market, but after I bought my ceiling tiles (which I will discuss in a later post) I came across a very peculiar blue box with pealing paint. “Its a clock box,” the man told me. “Some have glass, but the one you’re holding does not.”  It almost resembled a bird house for a big bird, who likes tight quarters. There was no longer a working clock inside, just a little dirt and lots of possibilities. The door worked and closed with a latch. I was sold.

It took me a couple of days of thinking to figure out what to do with it (completing the cigarette tin helped). The tricky part of the clock box is the cut out circle in front. The piece had to work with the door open or closed. I started by  sketching up a random skirt design, that I hoped hadn’t done before. Then the paper selection, glueing and painting. And the ripping of paper when the door wouldn’t close. The the painting of the ceiling because of the ripped paper. And finally sanding the door down for it to finally close properly without ripping the paper. All that work only then to remember, the tricky part of the clock box, making sure it works both open and closed. Words that children shouldn’t hear went through my mind. Does it work? I think it is up to the viewer to decide, to think anything else might drive me crazy.