Lilypond Space-Time Continuum / Come to the water…

Mixed media on canvas
90cm x 90cm

Lightspots become a reflected galaxy and ripples could be wormholes in the space-time continuum. Colour produces a sense of movement and layering through space and time, and I decided against including dragonflies and their movement into the mix – sometimes less is more, and I think this painting captures everything I intended within the lilypond space-time continuum.

Reflection and depth converge nicely over time… and the elements of birth, growth, decay and death also reflect on the theme of time. Light travelling across time and space touches the lilypads and creates form from fractals of moments in time… Water droplets hover and capture the glistening moment in time, and the colour palette touches on an alternate reality – the place that Bill Viola considers to be where normal sight, thinking and experience breaks down. Somehow it all links across time to art historical and others before me who have found inspiration in the lilypond.

The deep space view of Time-Space Continuum is “Come to the Water…” which references the water in Psalm 23 and the Living Water. At the edge of the lilypond you can look into the depths and see reflections of heaven simultaneously. Lilypads float and soar simultaneously. It’s a space where vision opens up to new dimensions, ripples in time are significant, and everything the Light touches is transformed.

This painting. This work. This intention. This life. My life. It’s about the Living Water and the Light.