TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE, BUT WHAT IS THAT ESSENCE, DO YOU HAVE THE TIME TO NOTICE IT? BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME, FOR THAT TRANSCENDENT MOMENT, THE MOMENT THAT HAS ALREADY PASSED, IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. . . DID YOU MISS IT?
SEEING “STATUS QUO” INSTANTLY EVOKES IMAGES OF WARHOL SILVER BALLOONS, OR A KOONS, BUT UPON CLOSER INSPECTION THE WORK IS VOID OF THE VITALITY OF A HELIUM BALLOON READY TO ASCEND, THIS RAREFIED AIR HAS BECOME STAGNANT, ITS TIME HAS SADLY PASSED
THE DARKENED GALLERY BECOMES A MAUSOLEUM TO LOST TIME, EMANATING THE LIGHT OF AN IPHONE IN A BLACKED OUT THEATER
WE ALL HOLD RITUALS AND ROUTINES, IT IS HEALTHY TO BE RELEASED FROM THE CONSTRUCTS OF OUR OWN DESIGN. BECAUSE THE MOMENT WE DO, NEW REALITIES PRESENT THEMSELVES
ZEITGEBER ATTESTS TO THE POWER OF BEING, LITERALLY FROZEN IN TIME, AND GIVEN THAT BACK AS A GIFT, IN A TRANSCENDENT MOMENT. “THIS TOO SHALL PASS” DID SOMETHING FOR THE FEW HOURS IT EXISTED IN ITS PRECARIOUS STATE, IT BEGAN TO RESONATE, AND AS IT MELTED IT BEGAN MESMERIZING THOSE THAT BESTOWED IT. THE BLOCK OF ICE REVEALED ITSELF TO BE AN ALTAR, OFFERING MOMENTS OF DEEP CONTEMPLATION, WAITING FOR PAINT TO DRY BECAME WATCHING ICE MELT, IN A POWERFUL, POETIC, MOMENT OF SILENCE
“I WAS HERE” READS LIKE A LINGERING TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF WHAT WAS THERE, THE THINGS THAT YOU TOOK FOR GRANTED THAT ARE NO LONGER PRESENT “TIME IS VERY SLOW FOR THOSE WHO WAIT; VERY FAST FOR THOSE WHO ARE SCARED; VERY LONG FOR THOSE WHO LAMENT; VERY SHORT FOR THOSE WHO CELEBRATE; BUT FOR THOSE WHO LOVE, TIME IS ETERNAL.” – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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