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Artist Felix Gonzalez- Torres Visual artist, Contemporary art, minimalism, conceptual artist.  

“Time is something that scares me. . . or used to. This piece I made with the two clocks was the scariest thing I have ever done. I wanted to face it. I wanted those two clocks right in front of me, ticking.” Quote Gonzalez- Torres

Art has a form of poetry behind what ever the meaning being. This romantic love story will have you in tears. Gonzalez-Torres used two identical battery-powered clocks to track and measure the inevitable flow of time. Knowing that the time will stop in synchronicity as the batteries will die out or if when one of the clocks stops or breaks, they can both be reset, thereby resuming perfect synchrony.

The artist Gonzalez-Torres partner Ross was Diagnose with AIDS most have been the most devastating news to undertake, to then face the fear of watching your soul mate die daily in front of your eyes, counting down the minutes and days you have left together.. wow just even putting that in writing makes you feel the pain that was under taking. Using the ready made objects can be a mystery in the making as to why they would be classed as art as it has all ready had it use and was already a belonging to some else idea. Until you put down your own stamp or interpretation in recreating the object which then has been set to create a different story and that is were the hidden magic underlies. 

Gonzalez-Torres was a openly sexual orientation was influential in his works as an artist, his works transmits of a language of love, poetry, pain and a reason to remember to live.  González-Torres said, “Love gives you a reason to live, but it also brings panic: the fear of losing that love.”