Wall Clock c. 1937

This drawing of a "Wall Clock" was made by John Cutting, who lived from 1855 to 1955. It has a lot of muted, earthy tones, and it almost seems to be glowing. Imagine the artist standing before the clock, pencil in hand, carefully observing every detail, every curve, and every shadow. You can almost feel the artist's breath. It’s like they’re trying to understand time itself, not just depict a clock. How time moves, and how a clock marks that passage with its steady rhythm. The artist is a bit like us painters—always trying to capture something that's both there and not there, visible and invisible. And maybe that's what this drawing is really about. Not just a clock, but time itself, and how we try to hold onto it, mark it, and make sense of it. Maybe all artists are, in their way, clockmakers too.