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Human Impermanence

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Through a mixture of clay, human body matter, and water I seek to examine human impermanence as perception versus reality.  Clay, like the Earth, shifts and changes with resilience, eroded by the steady dripping of water, the inevitable passage of time.  Water and Earth; time and nature, ever present and dependable in its continuity steadily shifts and alters the life around it.

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As the certain drips reveal human matter- we see them slip in and out of view quickly; the blink of an eye and the equivalent of a life span in the frame of the universe.  Out of view, human organics are buried beneath clay.  Can you remember all you’ve seen pass by? With the passage of time, the light, seen so clearly before, begins to fade as pieces of life cover its surface.

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With this body of work I push the viewer to contemplate the question of mortality.  Are they the human matter or the light?  Are either truly gone or, as a reflection of our Earth, have they instead been altered in their existence?  In the passage of time is mortality a reality of life as we all leave this world in the end, or is it a perception brought forth by the desire to experience life to its fullest and the fear of forgetting the intangible essence of ourselves once that physical form dissipates.