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'Real Time' (Man in a Clock) by Maarten Baas
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| The man trapped in a clock, Paddington. |
At the corner of Eastbourne Terrace and Craven Road, in Paddington, on the front of the EFL building, you will find a clock.
Now, clocks are everywhere, so why is this one so special? Well, this one has a man trapped inside it.
Yep. As you peer up at this clock, a man appears and cleans the clock face, from inside, rubs out the hands and then repaints them... every minute.
It is part of an art installation entitled 'Real Time', by Dutch artist Maarten Baas.
The first 'Real Time' piece, entitled 'Sweeper's Clock', was produced in April 2009 and consisted of a video of road sweepers moving rubbish around to create analogue clock hands.
Maarten Baas followed this up with a person painting a digital clock from behind a translucent screen and then a man painting analogue hands on a grandfather clock, from behind a screen.

