Some Questions

What if time were a constant governed by a mechanical device? What if somewhere from deep in the pleroma between Indra’s faceted jewel’s there was a perfect machine regulating the flow of immediate experience? How would it function? What would it look like?

Some Thoughts

The Hourglass of Saturn is a very literal example of what I suppose a time regulating device might look like.  In our cosmic predicament Saturn is traditionally associated with father time. Saturn is the Lord of the Rings and the ruler of time. So I used the symbol of the ring to tie back into the traditional symbols associated with chronology. The hourglass is also frequently used as a motif in depictions of father time along with his most famous instrument, the scythe. The scythe relates to us the cataclysm that waits for us when the sand runs out.

As an artificer I feel the sands of time rushing out like its being pulled from beneath my feat by some cosmic wave of immense gravity. Each thing I create is a desperate attempt at the lapiz lazuli tablet left in the ruined masonry of Uruk. I despair that like Gilgamesh and Enoch one day Chronos will catch up and, my dedication will be forgotten. Even the rock beneath our feat will one day succumb to the entropic pressure of existence and everything we gave meaning will be swept away on impartial winds of cosmic calamity.

This drawing was made with a Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen with a fine nib and Noodler’s Black Eel ink on white linen paper.