Stop the Clock

Stop the Clock is a provocative work by American artist Kelley Walker that exemplifies his practice of appropriating and manipulating existing images to examine consumer culture, mass media, and representation. Walker is known for digitally altering and layering found imagery, often sourcing material from advertising and news photography, then reproducing it through unconventional processes. The work engages with questions of originality, circulation, and the ways meaning shifts as images are recontextualized within the gallery space.