Time
Assemblage
(Book entitled “TIME,” wooden frame, steel rods, porcelain doorknob,
gear, star cookie cutter, glass doorknob, wooden ring, steel wheel, telephone part,
bath handle, seed pod, lantern part, glass lid, wooden ball)
40 x 16.25 x 14 inches
2015
John Sager
| TIME Einstein’s concept of time as a fourth dimension -- essentially equivalent to length, width and depth -- is illustrated in simplified form by the artwork. The resulting corkscrew pattern shows what physicists call a three-dimensional continuum. With memory, one can cycle to the past. These things I remember: playing with shapes of all kinds in the junkyard behind Grandpa Krieg’s Chevrolet company in Thrall during my early childhood summers; traveling to world fairs in Seattle, New York City and Montreal as I grew older; crisscrossing Europe by train with my wife Joni, seeing the art and architecture of the masters. We wade through history, and swim in a multitude of ideas, eventually finding the stroke that we can call our own. |
John lives in Austin, Texas, USA,
email John at jonisager@yahoo.com