“cool orange metal” | 36”x36”| oil on canvas | Headed to the skatepark to get some inspo. Then mixed in a great poem by Ari Banias titled “Human Time” and came up with this piece (scroll down for poem). I was drawn to the concept of time and how much life we can hold in a moment. How time can appear to last an eternity and then seem to disappear when we most want it to suspend. We carry these little pieces of time as memories and they deeply shape us. As Whitman wrote, “I contain multitudes.” We all do.
 
Human Time by Ari Banias
Beige building with 
black mildew streaking
down the side
 
Shut blinds above a
kitchen sink I
know is there
 
A plastic bottle
of luminous dish soap
 
its hourglass
at half
 
Succulents' small utterances
 
Faint gloom
 
You dissecting a crow
in science class
years ago
 
Someone pushing me
up against a locker
 
cool
orange
metal
at my shoulders
 
On the sunlit album cover
a price sticker
 
almost touching
the fold singer's 
pinched brow
 
Two chairs
at the table
 
sit together
proxies for us
 
in human time
we're still outside of
 
Between each hour
and the next
 
are days
we take cover in
like roadside brush
 
I pressed
with my fingers 
to "see"
 
A limp forest
trying to remain 
upright
 
Isn't rigidity a number's job
 
the blanket's job
to be sad
 
The white t-shirt's anonymity
 
The dusk takes with it
every detail