15” x 29” x 2”
Framed under glass in 2.5” deep hand milled pine frame.
It’s all too easy to go off track and lose your train of thought these days. As the wheel of thought in the caboose demonstrates we all have a lot on our minds; global concerns, Separating the good decisions from the bad, finances, work, relationships, And finding our true passions in life, just to name a few. Keeping our train of thought on track takes focus as the microscope shows peers both into the conductor’s (aka you and me) brain and outward towards the path ahead.
Made with original pages from the book “The Wonderful Locomotive” by Cornelia Meigs published in 1936. The little man tending to the gears made of clock parts is a vintage Mr. Ready Kilowatt which was an electric company mascot. This piece also features train tracks and an old wooden engine with a tin caboose which carries the thought wheel made from an old game spinner and a selection of vintage objects, watch face and spinner. The conductor is an antique bisque doll head who wears an old tin top as a hat and peers through an old microscope. The engine stacks are made with parts of the microscope.
