A related, but more poetic, clock was done by the artist Tim Hawkinson in the early 2000s. It's a 24-foot long series of gears, driven by a toy motor. The las

A related, but more poetic, clock was done by the artist Tim Hawkinson in the early 2000s. It's a 24-foot long series of gears, driven by a toy motor. The last wheel rotates once every ~100 years. http://fromthefloor.blogspot.com/2005/04/style-beyond-fashion.html http://fromthefloor.blogspot.com/2005/04/style-beyond-fashio... This has been shown in several places, including in retrospectives at LACMA and the Whitney. Tim's work has a homemade aesthetic. To me, the piece is about the inspiration and the folly of engineering. We build these systems which have design elements that can last for 100 years. We plan for it as if it will really happen. But because we have such a tenuous understanding of made objects at such time scales, there's an element of hubris, folly, fore-ordained failure. Another, quite different piece of Tim's is this minute bird sculpted from his own fingernail clippings: http://flyingoutofthisworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/tim-hawkinsons-bird-skeleton-made-from.html http://flyingoutofthisworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/tim-hawkins...