Sketchbook 11, Sketch of Two Clocks, 1986 by Donald Rodney
An image of white text on a dark blue background with a white border. The text reads, “One clock is inscribed ‘Past’ and ‘Imperfect’. The other clock is inscribed ‘Future looks’”
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An image shows white text on a dark blue background with a white border. The text reads: “One clock is inscribed ‘Past’ and ‘Imperfect.’ The other clock is inscribed ‘Future looks.’” This text, drawn from a 1986 sketchbook by Black disabled artist Donald Rodney, appears as a visual description entry in the research library of Total Running Time Site. A founding figure of Britain’s BLK Art Group, Rodney sketched during long hospital stays while living with sickle cell anemia and chronic pain. The recurring presence of clocks in his sketchbooks suggests an ongoing engagement with questions of duration, delay, and uncertainty. These sketches invite a reading through the lens of what disability scholars call crip time: a nonlinear, adaptive temporality shaped by debility, dependency, and interruption