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Harlan Heald
{K:15732} 10/8/2003
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Excellent image! Very creative composition/construction! Nice concept!
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Ursula I Abresch
{K:6515} 10/3/2003
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Time is such a strange thing anyway (more so when you haven't had enough sleep). I used to spend a lot of time thinking about time. Right now, time seems to be slipping away very quickly. I love orange and blue. It's interesting to follow your pictures.
Ursula
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17687} 9/26/2003
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As long as the bowler hat is in it I can accept the lack of focus. And wouldn't it really be wonderful (and perhaps dangerous) if we could transform time with a random thought? With all the random thoughts in my head I would like to do something useful with them.
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lowell whipple girbes
{K:13151} 9/26/2003
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wonderful
excellent
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G C
{K:12204} 9/26/2003
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The thoughtfulness, creativity and detail that has gone into this image is truly remarkable. That you've done all that, and maintained a graphic impact that makes this serious eye candy is over the top. Bravo!
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^j^ .
{K:8554} 9/26/2003
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Hmmm... Swatch !!!
Sorry, I can't really think of anything else right now...
Maybe I'll come back yesterday to have another interested look ?!
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 9/25/2003
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Jim; I see what you mean by this work being less focused than the previous pieces in this series, but I must say that I find this one especially aesthetically pleasing. I continue to really like the way you've contrasted warm and cool colors (contradictions?), and the recurring Boweler hat, certainly a "period" item. Also the Roman numeral clocks and gears turning are really a cool way to depict time... and thought?
But after following the series, this is the one I think I'd want to hang on my wall. I can only imagine it in a "wall hanging" size-- should be excellent. Aesthetics aside, your whole series has made me think of sundials to digital and atomic clocks. Also the ancient civilizations that were just as fascinated by time as we still are-- the Mayens, Incas, Celts, early Greeks, Romans, Chinese, Egyptians.... and it goes on and on. Surely an enduring theme of human inquiry that connects us with those earlier civilizations, and interestingly we don't seem to have progressed much-- maybe with the exception of Einstein et al's works.
Re your mid-life crisis, when I was in the throes of it I borrowed the initials TNT = "Transient Negative Thoughts" to help me be more aware of what the hell was happening in my life. Hopefully I'm on the downhill side of that, and I wish you the best in dealing with yours. Sincerely, and Cheers. Craig
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peta jones
{K:12615} 9/25/2003
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I always enjoy coming to your images Jim, as Robin says 'always something good to read'...and always something great to see and to tickle the imagination. I think I live in a state of random transformation.;)
Excellent!
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Robin McAulay
{K:8908} 9/25/2003
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ingenious layers - depth - colour and always something good to read - "and" all for free on top of it - too much!
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Masahiko Shibata
{K:14107} 9/25/2003
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Great! Magritt!
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ventrix drogo
{K:65398} 9/25/2003
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Immagine molto creativa. Complimenti hai una mente molto frizzante e riesci a realizzare cose interessanti e estrose. Complimenti. Ciao
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 9/25/2003
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Chris:
That's rich company indeed. As for Ben and George, there's also clearly a mutual obession with the logic of the irrational which goes straight back to Andre Bretton and the Surrealist movement. For me the obsession began in 1968 when at the impressionable age of 19, I spent the best part of the summer wandering the corridors of a massive Surrealism exhibition at the NY Museum of Modern Art -- a retrospective, basically, mounted shortly after the deaths of Bretton and Magritte. I'm still wandering those corridors.
The fascination with time goes back at least to a middle school science class when the Big Bang was introduced with considerable derision as an example of a ridiculous theory. That physicists have long since embraced what the mainstream of my youth considered laughable is a source of endless fascination. I've followed the physics of the Big Bang (as much as is possible without an serious understanding of quantuum mechanics) back to the point where most physicists readily admit that science ends and metaphysics begin. That IS the door at the edge of the universe. Along the way I've encountered some fascinating concepts -- concepts held by mainstream science which make Dali's soft clocks seem like the epitome of common sense. All that -- the search for the why as well as the wherefore -- are the main spring of my work as I grow more acutely aware that the clock is ticking...
Your offer is a kind and generous one, Chris. You have already helped more than you may know through your words of encouragement. It's accepted in the spirit it was offered. The conversation will continue. --Jim
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 9/25/2003
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I am glad you said that the theme wasn't nearly as focused - I am glad you said it - because I was going to and I was afraid of sounding shallow and nitpicky - because while done with flair and competance - it lacks what the others have....
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 9/25/2003
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Dear Jim,
I can think of very few people who put anything like as much thought into their images as you do. Names like Gougenhiem, Dukinas, and Goosens, come to mind, but even their images aren't as thought-provoking as the ones you've been coming up with. To dismiss them with a trite 'good work' seems almost an insult! They are, of course, good work ~ indeed, excellent work! ~ but they are more than that. I sense that they are, to one degree or another, an unveiling of your soul.
Time is an amazing concept. We can measure it to the nearest nano-second, yet we are powerless to stop it. Its progress is inexorable, and no matter how many anti-aging processes we buy into, we all have an allotted amount of it this side of the transition from this life to the next. It's what we do with it that matters, and I believe the most important thing we can do with it is to search out the one who "put eternity in our hearts". I truly hope your own search will be fruitful and rewarding. If I can help in any small way I'd count it a privilege?
Meanwhile, thanks for another inspiring image.
Best regards, Chris.
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Stefan Engström
{K:24473} 9/25/2003
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I like seeing this "background" stand on its own. I felt that there may have been too many clocks and cogwheels in the others, but here it feels like a very good choice. Time is maybe our first encounter with abstraction. You do like that bowler hat!
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 9/25/2003
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excellent image
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