Monday, January 7, 2008
Art Time
One hundred and fifty representations
of time before my eyes.
What is time?
Merely a tool
to measure itself?
But what is time, really?
We can't think about time
because we can't abandon it.
I see so many expressions
of time:
time past
time moving
old and new
clocks
more clocks
time space continuum
death
motion
decay
waves
speeding
curves
memories
more memories
events
passages
squiggles
changes
transformations
corrosion
aging
Phoenix
burnt
crude time
and
wonderful time
Time to do this or that
timelessness
Old things representing time.
Your time is not my time,
but is our time to settle in
and settle down.
We all have different times.
Mistakenly we say,
what IS the time,
as if there were only
one time (we know
from Albert E. that
there are many times.)
Motion
is an object moving
through space in time,
but what about a
still object. Can it
not move through a
space that is constantly
in motion?
The clock runs away with time
measuring our precious moments
that never existed before,
and will never exist again.
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