Chronos (200th creation)

Here we are! A milestone in a journey…200 creations (among other alignments I describe previously in Numbers )

To be honest, I don’t think it has any significant importance to anyone than the said person’s effort to grasp the sands of time…
So, not wanting to waste any more of your time, let’s move on to this celebratory creation titled after the Hellenic word for time ( all time pun intended).

It started in a cave, hasn’t it?
Imagine being in one as Plato describes it ; chained, restricted to facing the dark walls of the cave.
Where you can only observe what is happening around you through the shadows cast by the light somewhere above and behind you.
And what is happening is Life.

Now, without trying to be pedantic (if I end up being so, please set me straight), Plato’s cave was used as an allegory for his theory that everything we experience are nothing but the shadows of their ideal forms existing in another plane.
Our limitations “chain” us to a certain level of understanding; at least till we are freed from them.

Time and the knowledge of his ephemeral existence are some of man’s unique chain links.
In that limited time, the pursuit of beauty whether is a mathematical equation, an astounding orchard, a life devoted to teaching or an art creation, is a pathway to the realm outside of the darkness of our cave.

As we strive for that, we understand.
And to understand is to transform what is.
Then the steps towards the light are not blinding but freeing.

{ among other things, at the following creation are inscribed the words of the lyric poet Pindaros some 2300 years ago : Man is a shadow’s dream ( Σκιάς όναρ άνθρωπος) – there is also the number Φ.}

I want to honestly thank you for accompanying me in this journey. In a world where a lot of things, including words, are loosing their essence, please know that I mean every single one of them… THANK YOU.

Hand sculpted wax – 150 x 40 cm.