Time Standing Still…Angela Casserly

Angela Casserly turns a second into an eternity, freezing one moment in time so that we can live in it forever. This was her goal with her series of clock sculptures, Time Standing Still, where she takes vintage wall clocks and turns them into little worlds, populated by animals, people, cars, soldiers, gravestones and trees. Her clocks communicate the moment they are living in, whether it’s a time of war or a time of birth. Part of her inspiration is from Victorian taxidermy, so her work is heavily populated by animals, frozen in their living movement. What began as Time Standing Still has now progressed into Casserly’s conceptual furniture work. She has created a couple of stunning lamps, one with a base of dinosaurs, which is basically a childhood dream come true of mine. Her crowning achievement, in my eyes anyway, is her insect table, a writhing hoard of critters, climbing over each other up the legs of a table. If crawling things freak you out, you may not like it, but then again, her work is done so beautifully maybe you won’t notice. She last showed her work at Lower Haters Gallery in SF, and I will be looking out for any new shows, maybe in the LA area? After the jump, admire a collection of her works…