Felix Gonzalez-Torres chose
another everyday item to double up.
He took two matching battery-operated clocks and started them at exactly the same time. No two batteries are identical, however, so one of the clocks will slow down first and fall out of time with the other. Gonzalez-Torres made this work when he found out that his close friend Ross was seriously ill. He knew that, like the clocks, he and Ross would eventually fall out of sync. His clocks make us think about the strong bonds that exist between people who love each other, and about how the seconds and minutes of all our lives pass by