The Art of Time
‘The Alarm Clock,’ by Diego Rivera (1866 - 1957). Part of the Museo Frida Kahlo collection. Source Google Art & Culture.
Time is one of those elusive concepts that each of us has been granted the same amount of twenty four hours to either spin into gold or let slip through our fingers and see it gone forever.
More so, our individual experience of each of those hours and days are anything but equal.
Time flies, drags, heals, reveals and buries. Time is both our most relentless reminder of what is beginning and ending, of deadlines and special dates, and remains our most precious gift as one reflects over how that time is spent.
As we bid farewell to yet another year marred with both tragedies and milestones, we honor “Time” in our 27th edition, and the many ways that artists, creatives and writers explore the concept of time in this issue.
As you scroll through our pages, we invite you to do so slowly and intentionally. Savor the ideas, colors and words. May they challenge and inspire reflections over questions like:
- How do you spend your time each day? Are you spending too much time online browsing other people’s posts rather than spending ‘present’ moments with loved ones or even yourself?
- If you could turn back time, when would that be and why? Would your history, your story change?
As we welcome a new year, remember that this moment, this very one you are in right now, is the only one you can truly claim presently, until it too passes.
Thank you and have a wonderful new year.
A Ring Watch is nothing new. This one was imagined more than 460 years ago.
A design for a Ring Watch (1561), Plate 32 from Livre d'Aneaux d’Orfevrerie. Artist and engraver: Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey II (French, Neufchâteau 1532–1599 Damblain). Dimensions: Plate: 2 11/16 × 1 7/8 in. (6.8 × 4.7 cm). Sheet: 3 1/16 × 2 3/16 in. (7.8 × 5.5 cm). Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926 and from The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
