The artwork titled “Alarm Clock Eater,” created by Jacek Yerka in 2004 in Poland, is a pencil and cardboard piece belonging to the Surrealism art movement and falls under the genre of animal painting. The artist, known for his whimsical and imaginative style, has executed this work with meticulous detail and a clear surrealistic vision.
The artwork depicts a fantastical creature with an anatomical structure resembling a skeletal fish or dinosaur. The central part of the creature’s body forms a circular, clock-like cavity that is filled with a chaotic assortment of gears, springs, clock faces, and various mechanical components, perhaps symbolizing the consumption of time or timepieces. The creature has intricate, spiny fins and a bird-like head with a long beak, adding to its surreal and otherworldly appearance. The contrast between the organic skeletal frame and the mechanical innards exemplifies the surrealistic juxtaposition that Yerka is known for. In the lower foreground, a small alarm clock character appears to be observing the larger creature, further enhancing the whimsical and peculiar narrative of the piece.
