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by Jennifer Dalton


*Bold Composition* by M.F. Rosenthal

Using nothing but old-fashioned ingenuity, Los Angeles-based sculptor Tim Hawkinson creates newfangled contraptions that actually function.


*Grandmother Clock* by Herb Weinberg

One great example is Hawkinson's series of clocks hidden in everyday products. One clock is a soda can in which the aluminum pull tab is an hour hand slowly rotating around the sipping hole. In another, two tiny strands of human hair tell time on a hairbrush.


*True Reality* by Lee M. Osborne Jr.

His tour-de-force is Signature Piece. Made entirely of scavenged materials such as a child's school desk, a cheap record turntable, and garbage found around his studio, he created a machine that scribbles a replica of his actual signature on a section of rolled paper and snips it off, creating a growing pile of "Tim Hawkinson" signatures on the floor!


*Hidden Garden, I* by David Russell Miller

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