Oil & coarse pumice gel on canvas pad, 20”x30”
Time Crack is a painting inspired by the B-theory of Time. B-theorists reckon time not as a linear flow but as a tenseless extension similar to space. “Past, present and future are equally real,” they said, which leads to the relativeness, randomness, and collapsibility of time. The artist tries to describe this space-like reality of time. Three (or maybe more) layers of cracks and holes cover and dis-cover each other, representing an uncertainty in time. While through the broken points, they share a simultaneity, connecting or disconnecting the positive and negative state of time.
SIYAO LYU 