You Are Was and Will Be
(or It’s about Time…)
Created in Blender 2.42.
Thank you for viewing my work,
RobertT
hmmm a different piece of work…very nice…4 stars.
One of your more unusual pieces as of recently. Good work, it kind of vaguely rings the twilight zone for me.
whatever you were taking i want some to
4&1/2 stars (rounded up)
This is certainly an interesting piece, a long shot away from your usual work RobertT. I like it, although my main critique would be that it’s very busy. There’s no real focus point to draw your attention, leaving the viewer kind of dizzy when trying to take everything in.
Yeah, I have trouble decided whether I like it or not–or indeed, what I’m supposed to be liking–because so much of it is everywhere and there’s no readily apparent theme except for ‘clock-headed dudes’.
Still though, in spite of being a psychedelic hay-ride, it’s a well done psychedelic hay-ride.
The Beatles would be proud. ;]
trak wrecka: Thanks!
Cyborg Dragon: Thank you. Unusual it is, at first sight, because of the surrealistic metaphor, but in the end it is not all that removed from reality, as we are a combination of past, present, and future even though we believe we only dwell in the present, look forward to the future, or back to the past. Our sense of time can be very limited and limiting, so much it can occupy our thoughts until we perceive ourselves only in time, perhaps one reason in the image there is a face where a watch might be :eyebrowlift2: And perhaps the stars are there to remind us we are timeless in another sense.
TheANIMAL: Thanks for the rating.
mr_bomb: Haha, thanks! The compositional focus is necessarily trifold, a virtual triptych in a sense, in this case (present, past, future, or whatever order people might associate with each of the three figures). The overt busy quality to the piece is intentional because life is relentless, dynamic, everywhere, happening, happened, or about to happen simultaneously.
BlackBoe: Thanks for the feedback! This is one of the more conceptually challenging pieces I’ve done in recent days. Never worry about liking or not liking any particular work though; there are plenty of creations in the art world (sculptures, paintings, music, dance, literature, etc.) that may not have been conceived to be likable or even readily accessible. What’s great about that is that we can react to a piece in a variety of spontaneous or meditative ways, and sometimes the meanings can broaden or change for us. In this particular image I took a more surrealistic approach to the conceptualization of time and used some symbolism, not to be cryptic but actually to help the viewer establish her or his own connections to and understandings of this image and possibly get thinking about how much a role time can play in one’s life, so much, at times, that there seems to be only time, or the lack of time, or a wish to go back in time, or a desire to make time pass, so much that the very notion of time can consume our minds.
Some much can come down to our individual interpretations of a thing like time, and that interpretation can be so binding, so convincing and seemingly right, it can attain a reality of its own independent of higher potential actualities, such as timelessness.
RobertT
When I said “I have trouble decided whether I like it or not–or indeed, what I’m supposed to be liking” I didn’t mean it like that. I know not all art is supposed to be liked, I just meant I wasn’t sure of my opinion of it because I had no idea what it was supposed to represent.