This piece is fairly definitive of one of my major themes.
The figure in the foreground is me, and I am looking at my watch. This is meant to be in contrast to the figures floating into the sky and the incoming storm. It is about subjectivity – in the end, we are all ultimately self-involved as it is our own perceptions that govern us and we can never know another.
I am also, always, always, obsessed with time. It seems such a strange thing to me.
The piece has a bit of history too – one of my closest friends was interested in buying it, but at the same time I had no money to frame a similar piece that I wanted to enter into a competition. SO I made him a deal – if he paid for the framing of the other piece I would enter it into the competition and if it won he could have this one for the price of the framing. If it didn’t win then I would give him a discount.
Oddly, it won, so this pierce is now in Tim Jackson’s possession.
It won the Katanning art award in 2002.