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I was born in 1960 in Montevideo, Uruguay. An exhibit of Alexander Calder's work
gave me my first, and longest-lasting influence in art. After the show I went home,
painted my first "sunny-side-ups", and converted them into clocks. I was seven years old.
By ten I was painting the glass of my watch with beautifully-colored markers. In the
process I also managed to decorate my shirt sleeves - an art project my mother did
not appreciate. I made my first seconds-meter-machine at age fourteen. It had an old,
enameled face with only one hand ticking the seconds away. Below it a sign read:
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis ( Art Lasts, Life is Brief). It could not have been more apropos
for a young artisan who is still, today, fascinated by the integration of art and time.
From 1985 to 1990 I attended the School of Liberal Arts in Montevideo, where I
experimented with photography, video art and sculpture. It was there I conceived
and built my signature work, the Slow Reading Clock: a piece comprised of three,
one-handed dials, each dial reading the hours, minutes, and seconds respectively.
It was a natural step toward the beginning of my company, Watchcraft (R)....
But alas, vita brevis... so between family and work, I still manage to find a few
moments "on the dial" to experiment with photography, and if I can, get my shirt
sleeves dirty with something new.
Today a line of more than 100 unique watches are crafted in my New York City studio.
-Eduardo Milieris
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