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

The title for this piece comes from the Dalí painting on the roof of the cuckoo clock, Persistence of Memory. That picture, with its melting clocks, swelled up in my mind when I was a kid. When I finally saw it at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, I was amazed at its small size. The carving is derived from classic Black Forest cuckoo clocks, and also from an early American furniture ornament of a phoenix rising. The phoenix is an imaginary bird from Greek mythology that rises up out of the ashes of its predecessor. It was later adopted in early Christian symbolism to represent the renewal that comes from resurrection. I made Time Warp along with Presence is Fire as the story of Chlora tending the fire in the fireplace became more and more involved. At one point she looked around for items to feed the fire, and chose this obnoxious clock, as well as a lacy little training bra, and a wooden toy train. Chlora observed that the clock took its time to catch fire due to the persistence of memory on its roof. The roof curled down, the whole structure warped and the poor red cuckoo popped out, mute, for the first and last time. Time was definitely getting out of gear. What if Chlora was responsible for the end of time?