In Munich, he saw the intricate animated town clock, and found himself visualizing the mechanism that made it work. The next year he and his friend, Tom Kendall, built their first clock as an interim independent study. The 12-foot clock, in a traditional case, had all wooden works. It still stands in Argo Hall on the Dana campus. Minn. Borden's workshop is in the town of Zumbrota, Minn. but many of his shows and sales are on the East Coast.
People are very interested in art there.
Everywhere they are displayed, Borden's creations attract a lot of attention. When asked, he refused to identify his work as either art or craft. There is an overlap between what's craft and what is art. Craft can be extremely artistic, extremely creative. I don't have a real working definition of what is art.