Soft Clock

If you are exploring different art styles and movements through history, you basically have to make a melty clock. Salvador Dali's soft clocks are among the most famous examples of surrealism.

So famous that, apparently, I'd never paid sufficient attention, because before this project I didn't realize its full of ants. (The MoMA's description of the painting is very good, and the Wiki article is helpful in deciphering some of the meaning.)

So I set out to make ants. And I figured it out!

And the next morning I got up and looked at those ants and went "great, but what if they were smaller."

The amethyst cab is slightly cloudy from inclusions. It has the unclear hazy quality that I associate with dreams. For me, dreams aren't usually so sharp and 'real' that I mistake them for waking. Between that haze and the sometime mystical connotations of the color purple this seemed like an appropriate stone.

The setting is sterling silver.