Here at Art Center Information, we are already getting questions and comments on Richard D. Burton’s graphite drawing, Grinding Gears of Time. The drawing is still in the “work in progress” stage. One question that keeps cropping up is: “Where did ‘Father Time’ get that large wrist watch. How real is that? It would take a giant to have a wrist large enough to wear a watch like that!

Mr. Burton answers the question thus: It could very easily be a giant’s watch. Remember, this is a realistic surreal drawing. Anyone that has to question this does not realize that an old man floating through an ether of time and space while sitting on a throne planted on planks of wood that are surrounded by gears which are ticking away time, can almost fit into any imaginary scenario.

For example, on his voyage through time and space, the “old man” may have stopped off at a planet inhabited by giants and took the watch from one he sent into that “dark tunnel” that Hamlet so emotionally discussed in his soliloquy. All I can do is to advise anyone curious about the watch to ask him about it when they meet up with him. Since it is a figment of my imagination now depicted in the drawing, I won’t be asking him about it when I meet up with him. However, I might offer him my Movado watch in an attempt to barter a little more TIME.

We don’t know if this answers any of our reader’s questions, however, we appreciate the opportunity to discuss it with Mr. Burton.