Original artwork description:

64x84 cm | Filler, oak panel, stone

In the present, language and matter are bound together in what we might call the truth. We perceive the exterior through a semantic process and express our minds by shaping the fabric of reality with language. In the instant moment, we can verify these notions by reexamining our sensory input. They separate again once the moment is over and the present turns into the past. That’s why we call it history. The truth is gone, and all left is our story of what happened. Memory places another layer of language around our experience.

On the other hand, matter doesn’t know time; it only exists and follows the laws of causality. Modern physics has no solid theory of a directional passing of time. Albert Einstein even called it a ” stubbornly persistent illusion”. But a new form of physics called assembly theory describes that time is constructed from the complexity of things. The evolution of life from simple matter to organisms and objects creates and captures time. Time is measurable in objects developed by life. It makes sense because time is irrelevant within the realm of dead matter. Perhaps one can argue that language and time are intrinsically bound together. They might even be the same.

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in oak frame

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