Tick Tock, Tick Tock

By Kate Coldrick

From Elswyth, a collection attentive to the mechanisms of time and memory. In the church at Beer, Devon, the old clock’s gears and ropes still hold the pulse of centuries – iron worn smooth by motion, echoing through the tower with each measured turn. I’m drawn to the poetry of function here – how the work of keeping time becomes a kind of music, steady and unspoken.  

Photograph by Kate Coldrick – old iron church clock mechanism with gears and rope drum, part of a bell-ringing system in a Devon church.

Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock - the clock struck one .... the mouse ran down. Hickory dickory dock - tick tock, tick tock .......

Words and images © Kate Coldrick - part of the Elswyth collection. 


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