Sunday, October 7, 2012

Steampunk Clockworks


I’m in a neighborhood but it’s not one i’m familiar with. The houses are very large mansions. I’m walking on the sidewalk with ?? and the houses are well off the road behind lush manicured lawns and shrubbery so i can’t really see them in detail.  I notice the entrance to an exceptionally large house on the other side of the street and i’m immediately drawn to it because of the very large moving sculpture along the edge of the front property line next to the mailbox.  The sculpture is placed in a pool of gravel and i’m reminded of a Japanese garden. As i approach the sculpture and watch the large octopus-like tendrils rotate slowly and gracefully, i realize it’s a clock! There’s a smallish clock face near the top showing the analog time. The machine appears to be made of bicycle parts. The tendrils are over-sized bike chain. The clock is the toothed gear, about 10 inches in diameter. The entire grace and beauty of this “clock” sculpture pleases me and lifts my spirits. I leave to return ?home and i’m riding a bicycle up a black top road that runs through an upscale neighborhood (maybe the same one) but none of the houses are visible from the road. All along this road are men (carpenters) working on building. Saw-horses with sheets of plywood or board being cut with circular saws. I have to continue to my destination ahead, but am pleased to see all of the active building going on along the road. 

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