Roger Wood, the mad clockman, profiled in the Toronto Star

My pal and former neighbor Roger Wood, the mad assemblage clock-sculptor, got a swell and well-deserved notice in the Toronto Star last week. Roger's clocks are quite possibly my favorite objects in the world.


But it's the overwhelming number of storage containers, loosely labelled and filled with the items he uses for his fanciful designs that makes the jaw drop: picture lamp bulbs, lamp parts, wooden balls, drawer pulls, buttons, clock springs, gears and faces, dials, jewellery, candlesticks, shoemaker moulds, picture frames, musical instrument parts, vacuum tubes from old radios, gas lamp parts, typewriter keys, bottle caps, old gauges, camera lenses and nameplates.

Wood loves the patina that comes with age. "I like to think what I do is preserve a lot of nice old bits and pieces that would probably just get thrown away, although I have to pay good money for some of them," he says. "I set them up in a little tableau so people can appreciate and admire them in ways they never would."

Link, Some of my pix of Roger's studio

(Thanks, Amanda!)

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