Time
and what it takes away
Hello lil shr00ms, welcome back. I come to you guys with another analisis of one of my paintings.
This painting is a bit more personal since it was done at a time when i wasn´t my best mentally, I haven´t told you guys but I studied Fine Arts in England, and this painting was done on my third,and last, year. A little dark time for me during that year but this work came alive from it so I´m ok with that.
No more waiting though, here is the piece:
oil paint on canvas
The paintings are now sitting in my parents living room, they match perfectly with the decoration and their size impacts the viewer more.
Time
This is a two piece project, I did this piece to help me cope with an event in my life that left me with some anxiety. It represents the passage of time and how it affects us. Without us even realising it, it strips away everything from us leaving us with nothing. Until we’re just a memory of what we once were.
Process:
With these pieces i also wanted to bring to the viewers a sense that they were looking at process photos from a museum analising a spieces, i wanted them to feel like the´re seeing the progress of time affecting the fish. You can see the flesh rotting away and falling off the the bones , the time passes and with it takes away from the fish, changing it and stripping it from what it once was.
the fish represents us and the falling flesh represent the time and experiences that we go through and how it changes us and strips us away from what we were.
I randomly stumbled on your art and I just had to say how interesting the timing is (no pun intended). I've been thinking/writing about time recently and have been debating whether it exists as we know it or everything is just a series of processes that repeat cyclically which we happen to call time for our own ease.
As an artist myself, I love finding others on Substack that not only show their art but also talk about it. Awesome meeting you and can't wait to see more! :)