In this piece, I selected the faces of two clocks of which can be found in the Czech Republic, called Prague Orloj. The faces of these clocks are originally from a picture I happened upon in my Twitter profile feed. Someone had retweeted an image of this clock. It’s part of the architecture of an old building in Prague. The Prague Orloj is a medieval astronomical clock that is quite a work of art in itself. It’s considered the third oldest astronomical clock in the world that was created in 1410 A.D.
I started integrating selections of the faces of the clocks into a piece I titled Entropic Order. The picture I posted back on September 22nd, called Shredded Narcissism, is a derivative of this same background. Perhaps you’ll see the similarities.
You’ll note that there is a lot of detail in this picture. It almost looks like it could be a morass-like melange of chaos or mashugana; in other words, it looks like it could be the work of a schizophrenic artist; in other words, it looks like it could be just too busy, or too cluttered to bother making peace with. Yet, this is the direction I’ve been unconsciously wanting to go in with my art recently.
I’m fascinated by the random orders that phenomena in nature produce. Like when you look at the dirt on the ground, the clouds up in the sky, or on the scales of a snake, or up close at a butterfly’s wings. Nature has a way of blending consciousness back into itself for a rest of the mind. So, while I’m not intending to confuse the viewer, I’m attempting an overload so that a viewer can let go and get lost in the detail.
The circular designs placed whimsically, as if they fell like leaves down into a pond, are orderly patterns that constitute some structure for the composition of this representation. The center of interest is obviously the remains of the largest clock face selection, and the other circular designs surrounding it are like gears that turn on the teeth-like patterns surrounding it.
As I mentioned in my post for Shredded Narcissism, I had originally created a traditional collage in which I incorporated shredded pieces of letters financial institutions had sent to me to get me to apply to their ponzi schemes. Well, instead of using the letters to let them predate upon me, I shredded them and used them for a purpose that I could really profit from. You may be able to make out some of the type or text peaking through some of the spaces of the hollowed out selections and patterns here.
I titled this piece Watching the Sound of Time. I was trying to give time a visual and audio perception to you. I also wanted to provide your eyes with a sense of movement, as gears on a clock move, as water in a stream flows, as chains on a necklace glide from your chest when you take it off. You are invited to watch the sound of time here, where you can take off the rules of perception, and flow with waters of mind that relax from the policies of a standardized world.
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