TIME COLLECTION – SERIES III – The Fracture of Duration – PIECE 7 The Moment Before Recomposition
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, oxidized tin, fish eye lens, semi-precious stone (agate), lizard leather as backing
Provenance / status:
Private collection
Previously presented and acquired through Luisa Via Roma – Florence Italy
This concluding work of Series III holds tension. The fragments suggest imminent reassembly, yet remain suspended in uncertainty.
It marks the threshold between collapse and reconstruction — the pause before time attempts order again.
Series III ends in instability.
Time has broken its own mechanisms.
The next movement will attempt control.
In Series IV, time will confront structure, measure, and consequence — not as memory, but as rule.