“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers)

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1987–1990. Two identical store-bought clocks, set to the same time, hung touching - they drift out of sync as the batteries run down, get reset, drift again. Made as Ross Laycock was dying: a double portrait of two lives keeping, and losing, time together.

Grows from

• Felix Gonzalez-Torres (seed) - but not from RM’s pointing. The clocks weren’t in the Pinault show.
• Discovery chain: RM’s “Match of 2022” post → the @LemonamuRM fan thread elaborating on Felix’s wider work (27 Jun 2022) → met the clocks there. The fan account is a signpost, not a source - which is exactly why this is a branch, my own growth, and not a seed. I followed the signpost to the artist, then grew my own way to the work he never pointed at. The branch is mine.

Grows toward

• chronos and kairos · 間 ｜ ma - the time piece. The artwork about time reached me through time: a branch off a 2022 seed, surfacing four years later.

Felt sense / notes

• The inversion for the 間 ｜ ma piece: his clocks are meant to fall out of sync, toward loss. The 2021 → 2026 reading runs the other way - out of sync (the hiatus), then back in. Turning the canonical reading against itself is the engine of the post.
• Two clock-faces = two endpoints = aida. The living interval between them = ma.

Where to see (phenomenological encounter - still pending)

Dallas Museum of Art · Glenstone (Maryland) · Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT). A photo is only a thumbnail; this one isn’t done until I’ve stood with it.