The Old Heart of the Sleepy Clock

 My Sleepy Clock (first exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia 1997) is getting on in years. I put it into suspended animation and took out its old heart:

Il cuore di un Orologio Dormiglione

This heart will never beat again, though I did make a video of the last time the clock worked with its old internal organs.

And here is the body, waiting for its new organs.



Hopefully soon to be restored into the working object it once was...


 



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