Kloee Carmean (b. 2007)
Monday 10:05 AM, 2025
Chalk on Clock
Based on Marieke Nijkamp’s “This is Where it Ends,” I made a symbolic clock sculpture. The book inspired my work because I thought it was really interesting how, in the book, it takes place over the course of just two hours. The piece is about a school shooting told in four different, but connected points of view. The cover of the book has chalk that was shot as the art, so that inspired my use of chalk in my own art. Each new section of the book has a timestamp and the time of the shooting is 10:05 a.m. So, I set the time on the clock to 10:05 in order to symbolize how time, in a way, stops because of how fast everything else happened. The book had such a chokehold on me that I read the entire thing in one sitting. For the background I used the title page from the book and tore it to give it a more dramatic effect. For each marking on the clock, I used a piece of chalk cut to size with a knife and hot glued to the paper. Then, I hot glued the clock hands at 10:05. Then I reassembled the clock. I want the art to display how fragile time is, especially in urgent situations. In just two hours, so many students were killed and injured and helpless. While the book is fictional, it accurately displays a tragedy that has affected America repeatedly and I believe it is important to bring awareness to the many ways in which the difficult topic of school shootings can affect people.
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