CECE the clock

THIS IS CECE

A ONE-OF-A-KIND ART PIECE THAT TELLS THE TIME WITH HER EYES.

Clocks are funny things. Trying to convince us that every second lasts the same amount of time. Everyone who has ever been bored knows that time doesn't work like that. That a minute can last for hours.

CECE knows it too. She knows that our sense of time is linked to our emotions and that the passing of time changes her moods. Moved by two clock mechanisms, CECEs eyes rotate as the time passes. Reminding us that there's more than one way to look at time.

CECE // red & yellow

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CECE // red & yellow

CECE // red & yellow

£500.00
CECE // red & blue

CECE // red & blue

CECE // red & blue

£500.00
CECE // pink & yellow

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CECE // pink & yellow

CECE // pink & yellow

£500.00
CECE // pink & blue

CECE // pink & blue

CECE // pink & blue

£500.00

Wait, she tells the time with her eyes?

CECE's eyes follow the hands of the clock, so her expression changes as time passes. Her left eye shows you the hours and her right eye shows you the minutes.

Move the slider on the image to see what time it is.

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A printed statue head on a red rectangular background with yellow eyes and blue pupils that both look to the left. Image text: ‘Left eye = hours. Right eye = minutes. It’s 8:45.’

A printed statue head on a red rectangular background with blue eyes and purple pupils that both look to the right. Image text: ‘Left eye = hours. Right eye = minutes. It’s 3:15.’

A marble statue head of a woman on a grey background.

CECE's story

CECE is a project I’ve been working on for many (and by that I mean MANY) years. When both my grandparents passed away shortly after each other, I found comfort and inspiration in the books they left behind. One of the books was filled with Egyptian statues and after an afternoon of collaging CECE’s first prototype was born.

That first prototype was made of styrofoam, cardboard and two not very silent clock mechanisms that ticked in an irritatingly uneven rhythm. My flatmate and I quickly developed a language to talk about time in facial expressions. It’s almost 🙄 or I’ll meet them at 👀. It took me years to get the details of the piece in the right shape but it still makes me giggle just as much when I glance over and see CECE is making a funny face.

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CECE’s image is part of the MET Museum’s open access initiative. It’s an incredible resource that includes over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks from The Met collection.

What customers said:

"CECE will tell you what time it is. Sort of... If she feels like it, or reluctantly sometimes. She might try to ignore you and look the other way. She might be spending some time in the clouds, or be plain cuckoo at times."

"Honestly I love her changing expressions, she's so playful! I enjoy making faces back at her, trying to tell the time with my eyes like her."

“CECE is a funny and even provocative way to reflect on the concept of time.”

"I think her changing expressions remind me of my changing feelings throughout the day. Like it’s ok for the day to change, sometimes I can be rolling my eyes, sometimes I can be cheeky."