EricFreitas's Profile

Bio

I used to be a painter. Then I discovered that machining gears is more fun than painting. Now I'm a clockmaker. A strange, dark, eccentric, gothic, anachronistic, deco, nouveau, abstract expressionist clockmaker.

My environment growing up very much contributes to what I create now. I grew up on a dirt road, with lots of trees around. My father was a Ford engineer, and had the distinctively quirky, but logical personality that typically comes with this profession. My older brother had M.C.Escher posters and Salvador Dali books around. I got a very nice calligraphy set when I was in third grade, and became pretty good at that; even got paid to do some high school diplomas when I was still in elementary school. I have some good things hardwired into me, and they all contribute to what comes naturally to me now.

So that's what it's all about for me. I'm not a 'steampunk clockmaker'. My ticking works are a reflection of everything I've been visually obsessed with in the past. I have a bachelor's degree from Center for Creative Studies, which helps me interpret my thoughts more effectively, but beyond that, I just try to get into my own world with a sketchbook, and let it all come out. Then I take these spontaneous sketches, and spend four or five hundred hours turning them into working timepieces.

Male, Born on January 21

Favorite Materials

353 Engravers Brass