Man inside a clock at Paddington

 There's a man trapped in a clock outside Paddington station! He is forever cleaning the face and drawing new hands on the glass. Okay, it's not a real man, though he does look very realistic. 

It is a fascinating work of art. An actor dressed in a 19th century three piece suite, he sometimes puts on a  top hat. He is dressed as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who was the architect of Paddington station.  

The man is constantly cleaning the clock face and he also cleans the minute and hour hands then has to redraw them. The creator is a Dutch artist, Maarten Baas. He has made a series of human filled clocks, called Real Time clocks. The first was in Milan in 2009 and another is in Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. 

On a different day, it's a different time. In this photo he is wearing his hat -

Note that the lines on the photos and videos are not seen in real life, they are due to the camera shutter speed.

The  videos are a 12-hour recorded performance. This first video, he puts on his hat and takes it off at the end -

In this video he is without his hat -

The clock is on 50 Eastbourne Terrace, which is next to Paddington station. 

The statue of Brunel at platform 8, in the station -

Paddington station was designed by Brunel and opened in 1854. Brunel is buried in Kensal Green cemetery, which I visited in 2020.

And of course, Paddington himself -