the times in The Times

Eugene OR

Description

Victoria Anne Reis (2022) the times in The Times. Newsprint, highlighter, resin Three conic solids, triangular, points together, splayed outward; clocklike, starlike, reflected. Each lit thru (or shadowed thru) with slices of newspaper fragments-- highlighted blue, yellow, and orange-- embedded in the resin of the conic solids. The occasional paper curls at the edges. On a mirror, photographed from above. The angle of an elbow visible against the blue sky. Maybe a blurry face in the top corner. Slivers of text barely visible, if you look closely: before. After. Still. (the art/ist is present, the art/ist is past, the art/ist is future)? How do we know time? How do we make time known? How do we situate ourselves and our shared world in the quantum present? A praying mantis poised in amber, an orgone energy generator; a crossword halfway finished, a pulpy page once read now blowing away in the wind. Resin is the language of foreverness, the daily newspaper a prime example of ephemera. In this piece these oppositional tendencies come to meet, & to mingle, at least for now; especially for now :) find me now then & forever @ boringmommyblogblog.wordpress.com