Acrylic on Deep Canvas

100 × 80 cm

‘Time can lay heavy on us when we feel as if it’s running out on us.’

Some could see this as being inspired by Dali and his surreal clock series. However this painting explores our human relationship with time itself and explores the concept of ‘time anxiety’.

Time is ticking by regardless of what you do. Therefore - The real question you have to ask yourself is

How am I going to make the most of the time I have left - How will I make the most of my life?

This is a very personal question and our answers to it are completely unique in comparison to everyone else. A quote I recently read said something along the lines of:

‘The truest form of intelligence is designing the life you want to live with the time you have.’

Sometimes the only way to answer this question accurately is to remove ourselves from the fact that time is ticking by, to put ourselves into a suspended reality – and carefully consider what is most important for us, and what road do we choose to venture down.

Therefore I wanted to create this painting that does exactly that – it puts us in a frame of existence where time is suspended – it no longer rules us. Because when we live in a constant state of time anxiety, we feel like time is constantly running out on us and our lives are passing us by, it weighs us down. It can put us in a defeatist mind set where we don’t dare to dream big dreams or take action on them. However I have learnt that there is a paradox to time anxiety, it can either pressure us to give up completely or in contrast it can force us to move into action to chase after our dreams and desires with determination. It all comes down to how you choose to look at it.

How do you see it?