Speed of Time
I remember more then one science video that I watched as a child having a scene where something that took months to occur would be shown in a minute’s time. Technology allowed us to see changes that occurred slowly, quickly. For example, a plant would grow out of the ground, bud, a flower would open up and die all in the same minute. It was fascinating because it was something that one could not experience in nature.
How do my paintings treat speed? Well, in Foreshadowing, paintings of flowers, time travels faster then the speed of nature. In Patterns in Flight, butterfly wing paintings, and in Action, Unification, paintings of joints of bones, I am slowing down time. There are beautiful things that happen so fast that our naked eye can not capture them. These objects have a rhythm that is too fast for us to normally comprehend.
I also try to take the stages, freeze them in time, and layer them. We easily forget where we have been before. One can see the different stages of the flower, butterfly wings, or joint of bones in the same painting.
Tags: animation, metaphysics, speed, time
