Sometimes a painting starts as one thing and becomes something else entirely. The two Time paintings below began as close-up waves, but after studying them for a while I thought they were more like views one might see through a telescope. So I sent them on a long voyage. By the time I returned to the studio to work on them, they had become meditations on time – how variable it is. One result of working on all these miniature paintings is another poem, which you will find at the bottom of this post. Enjoy!
- TM8116 Time Lapse 6×6
- TM8115 Time Breaks Apart 6×6
Contraction
The world shrinks
and I must paint each day
a little smaller.
Tiny brushes, miniature panel,
magnifying lens. A single drop
of oil to thin the paints.
Flawed data doesn’t reduce.
Accuracy matters, even
at this smaller scale.
My mostly modest output
will soon require a telescope
and a microscope.
The atom is the shortest route
to where I’m going.
I like the art very much, and the poem is wonderful!
Telescope to microscope… the alpha and the omega.