Assemblages + Mixed Media | 2
Of Chronos & Kairos
Assemblage sculpture and acrylics on canvas
16x32x2in
The ancient Greeks had two words for time, Chronos and Kairos.
Chronos refers to chronological or sequential time which is quantitative.
Kairos means the right or opportune moment -- the time in between - that is, a moment of indeterminate time in which something special happens-- it has a qualitative nature.
Assemblage sculpture and acrylics on canvas
16x32x2in
The ancient Greeks had two words for time, Chronos and Kairos.
Chronos refers to chronological or sequential time which is quantitative.
Kairos means the right or opportune moment -- the time in between - that is, a moment of indeterminate time in which something special happens-- it has a qualitative nature.
Chronos is represented by the horizontal shapes:
the battered wood, the horizontal canvases, the dark wood,
and the metallic plates that go along with this.
Chronos follows the rules of space and time.
So, there are limits, it is contained:
things get old, wood gets rotten - as an example.
On the other hand, Kairos breaks - or shifts - these rules.
It is the time where the connection with the Divine is made --
it is a parenthesis, a bracket in our lives.
There is no time.
