TIME COLLECTION – SERIES III – The Fracture of Duration – PIECE 1Time Loses Its Center
Artist pin (medal-object), applied arts – jewellery design
2010–2011, Florence, Italy
Author: Milan Stamenovic
Handmade, unique piece (one of a kind)
Materials: Antique pocket watch case in silver and porcelain quadrant, semi-precious stone (tiger’s eye, cat stone), suede leather
Provenance / status: Availability or acquisition inquiries upon request
This work announces disorientation. The traditional centre of the clock dissolves, replaced by a constellation of fragments orbiting without hierarchy. Time no longer points forward; it spins.
The pin visualises the collapse of linear duration — a moment when chronology can no longer hold memory in place.