On my vacation to Kerala, I visited Forte Kochi. A perfect place to spend entire day by simple hopping from one antique store to another. What caught my attention was a small clock repairing shop at one corner of the Jew Street. The shop had huge pile of brass gears along with tiny nuts, screws and other minute parts, once in great demand of pendulum wall clocks. Besides the vendor also showed my part of vintage telescope and other antiques. And this was more than enough to hook me. The dimensions of the frame is around 4x3feet.
Comprising over 500 different parts from various devices components, each meticulously handpicked from different cities over the span of a decade. Crafted using a combination of recycled wood, metal, clock gears, and bespoke components, the piece is both an artistic statement and a functional timepiece. Every gear, dial, and rivet has been purposefully placed. This took around eight intense months of effort to arrive at this version beyond which I was blank
It’s been more than 18 years or more since I got into making artefacts from found materials. This is very close to what I have imagined to create with collected parts of various devices from different cities. After countless formations in my head and in real this is what I finally articulated. The phrase Forsa E Honorum – stayed with me since I watched Gladiator. And I always wanted to make something related to stallions after being inspired by ‘Stallion of the Cimarron.
Don’t miss this short film spun around the same concept and the journey of the artefact.
https://youtu.be/peyykduTF9E?si=phCi3XSh33EH6s88
