Steampunk artist creates the future by using the past

The basement of Maury Dickson's Woodstock home is his workshop. There, he turns antique gears, old eyeglasses and other bits of Victorian-era bric-a-brac into jewelry, clocks, lamps and other pieces of art that seem like they belong in a futuristic vision of the past.

By Karen Nitkin, knitkin@verizon.net

January 10, 2013