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Past, Present, Future Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 24 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in
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About The Artwork
Time is a difficult concept in physics. Newtonian mechanics cannot discriminate between time moving forward or backward. To deal with the fact that time only moves forward, physicists use the concept of "The Arrow of Time," which artificially points forward. Einsteinian relativity theory treats time as just another dimension on a par with the three spatial dimensions. Only in thermodynamics does the arrow of time rear its ugly head, insisting that entropy (the total amount of disorder in the Universe) always increases as time moves forward. Philosophically, time is best understood via the following chant: The future's but a probability field. The past is footsteps in the snow The present moment is all we have. This painting depicts this philosophical view of time. Colors at the bottom represent all the possibilities for future events converging to the present. At the present, one of these events explodes into actuality, while all the others are annihilated. The one remaining event shoots like a beam of memory - now devoid of color - upward into the past, but slowly fades away as it grows older.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:24 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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I work at the interface between perception and reality. Actually, all artists work at the interface between perception and reality. The difference, if any, is that I work explicitly at the interface between perception and reality. I don't try to kid you into thinking that what you are experiencing is reality in any way, shape or form. Neither is it any kind of more-or-less abstract representation of reality. I'm not creating reality, I'm creating perception. The artist creates an object - whether it's a book, a painting, a sculpture, a mobile, or a serving of eggs Benedict - that exists in reality. When you experience that object, what you percieve is something entirely different, which exists only in your mind. It does not, and may never have, existed in reality. That is subjective reality. Objective reality isn't. In subjective reality, your mind creates a perception guided by the vision of the artist. The work of art is successful insofar as the object the artist created leads you to the perception he or she intended. Usually, what I intend is to guide you to a pleasant perceptual experience. Have a pleasant perceptual experience!
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