Along with all manner of things that she would use to create art, 

my friend Eliza Grace collected watches. I was mesmerized the first time I saw 

Wait of Time. Thrilled, I purchased it when she was finally ready to 

part with it a couple years later. Shortly after taking it home,

it fell off the shelf and broke. 

 

Eliza Grace graciously agreed to recreate it. I became 

even more enamored with the variety and delicate intricacy of the 

watch faces as I cleaned them up. It was a year before I got it back. 

I secured it on a solid base. 

 

Eliza Grace passed in the fall of 2024. 

I asked her son if I could have any watches she might still have had. 

He found a few in a little baggie. Then a few more in another little bag. 

His excitement matched my own when (as we prepared for 

her celebration of life) he handed me a box.

With that “mother lode” of 168 watches, 

I felt I was handed a torch.​