Monthly Archives: September 2011

Clock Drawings, 2009-2011

September 18, 2011 – 4:17 pm

I collect old wind-up alarm clocks, and in 2009 I began to make drawings using the energy found on the clock springs. The first drawing in the series was created using a 1934 Westclox Big Ben Chime Alarm, which I purchased at a yard sale at an old farmhouse west of Kingston, Ontario. The clock…

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Recent Drawings by George Gershwin, 2011

September 18, 2011 – 3:52 pm

The player pianos in old western movies were hardy and inelegant. Shown scrolling punched paper rolls through their mechanisms, they automatically plunked out popular melodies for the saloon patrons. By the early 1900s however, player pianos had evolved into quite sophisticated instruments. The reproducing piano played rolls that recorded,  not simply the sequence of notes…

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