Catalog Entry from If These Walls Could Talk Exhibit, Neill-Cochran House 2020:

This warped clock is modeled after a beat up clock radio I found in a junk store. Putting a radio into a clock was a big innovation in the early 20th century, and by the 1950s one like this was a fixture on many a night table or mantle. It is midnight on this clock face. The painting on the front shows an important Jewish event that happened at midnight: Passover. The Rembrandt Nightwatch is another nighttime scene, just because. The blood red nail polish has Agnus Dei, the lamb of God, on it. Why? It simply stands in for the blood of the lamb that had to be painted over and around doorposts so the midnight avenger would pass over houses thus marked. Otherwise… well, you read the story in Exodus 12. It was absolute madness. Today we can feel something of the anxiety of that night when the Angel of Death, rather than the coronavirus, passed over the homes that had the sign of obedience. Chlora surmises that from now on talk radio with all of its false alarms would be filtered and corrected by blasting through the truth of blood.