Watch sculptures : Moments in time by Dominic Wilcox

2011
Five new watch sculptures have been created covering subjects from protest and CCTV to money and football.

Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature time-based sculptures using a collection of vintage mechanical watches and customised model figures. By attaching tiny figures onto the second and minute hands of each watch, Wilcox has made unique, animated scenes from everyday observations and imagined situations.

Love and Protest, UC Davis Protest and Captured are on display at La Scatola Gallery until the 10th of January.

Comfortably Oblivious and The Beautiful Game are on
display along with The Sitting Man and Unrequited Handshake at
Phillips de Pury until 31 January 2012.

Love and Protest, 2011
In these times of peaceful protest in the face of armed repression, a protester and soldier kiss.

UC Davis Protest, 2011
"I find it disturbing when people in positions of power abuse it and lose any sense of humanity. I was shocked to see the footage of the pepper spraying of people sitting in a peaceful protest at UC Davis. I felt a need to capture this incident in time."
more info about the incident here

Photograph: Wayne Tilcock/AP

Captured, 2011
CCTV cameras and three people photographing and videoing. Everyone is capturing everyone.

The Beautiful Game, 2011
A footballer holds aloft a trophy in the form of a pound symbol (£) as three prospective WAGs fight for his attention.

Comfortably Oblivious, 2011
Here two people fail to give up their seat to an elderly woman with walking stick and bags walking round and round.

London Looter: a hooded youth on the second hand carries away a LCD tv while a riot policeman looks on passively. “I had to walk across Mare Street in Hackney to get home during the riots. I remember seeing a boy carrying an LCD TV down a back street. I noticed how the police seemed unsure how to react, holding their circular shields while the boy held a rectangular TV.”

Above: Watch sweeper. “The numbers and hands of a watch are swept away by a watch sweeper.”

Above: The unrequited handshake. “The outstretched hand of friendship is continually rejected.”

Above: Adventures of a young vegetarian OR Pigs shall fly. “A small girl attempts to stop a butcher chopping up a pig by hanging on his arm while the pig floats away.”

Above: Hide 'n' seek. “A pig tailed girl hides behind a tree from a searching boy.”

Above: “The sitting man”

A man so engrossed in his iPhone that he fails to notice a monkey balanced on the head of a weightlifting boy standing on the arm of an elderly rollerskater.


			Copyright Dominic Wilcox 2011