Carol Baum
Recycled Computer Parts Clock   

“My clocks are inspired by my passion for recycling/repurposing as well as a love for creating outside the box. The first Makin’ Time Computer Art Clock was made 17 years ago and ever since I have been reclaiming parts and pieces of old, scrap and broken technology and reconfiguring it, preserving it as functional art rather than landfill.  I thoroughly enjoy mixing and matching components, playing with the colors, form and original function of the pieces, integrating whimsy with technology such as the new line of keyboard clocks.  As technology advances, so does the array of materials available for our clocks.”
 Carol Baum has been creating computer art clocks since 1995; the first one was a going away gift for a retiring chief engineer at a video production studio in the Maryland/DC area. The rave reviews and additional commissions prompted a friend, Cynthia Goldner, and Baum, the originator, to further test the market. Subsequently, MAKIN' TIME Computer Art Clocks was born. Malinda Fishman joined the Boulder Team in 2011; she and Baum met in 1996 at Fishman’s Boulder craft gallery, The Middle Fish, and have been friends and colleagues ever since. Baum is self-taught, dabbling in mixed media art since childhood. Her outside-the-box creativity and personal values to help care for the environment by reducing, reusing and recycling made MAKIN’ TIME a perfect venture.


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