Do You Have the Time?
MEDIUM:
Fabric covered canvas board-assemblage: collage, canvas
miniatures, glass set photo, acrylic paint on canvas board.
ARTWORK:
11″ x 14″ x 1″
FRAME:
Natural maple finished wood.
15″ x 17″ x 2″
DRAFT
“Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms, in the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined.” 1. Carlo Rovelli
Artist Note: For roads taken we can thank Sir Isaac Newton’s (1643-1726) light prism experiments and discovering the colors and naming of the visual light spectrum. We can thank the chemist, Michel Chevreul (1786-1889) for his classification of colors the Impressionist artists would adopt.
We can thank Albert Einstein (1879-1955) for his study of electromagnetism and determining natural light is comprised of particles & waves called photons. The speed of light (186,282 miles per second) generated from stars can be curved in space-time by the pull of gravity making the time and location of things relative.
Artwork: The artwork biographically traces Einstein’s bumpy career, his chalk board theories, the effects of gravity on light etc.
Footnotes: 1. Rovelli, Carlo: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Riverhead Books, N.Y. 2016. Refer: Hawkings, Stephen: Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Bantan Books, N.Y. 2018.
Note: In recognition of those who employ color: Eugene Delacroix’s (1798-1863) paintings are described as, “….luxurious orchestrations of feverish reds, velvety blues, dusky purples, astringent oranges and shimmering greens.” 2. Perl, Jeb: Romanticism’s Unruly Hero, New York Review of Books, N.Y. Times, November 22, 2018.