We Thought We Had Time
This work reflects on the fragile illusion of time as something we believe we can control, postpone, or recover. Torn handmade paper surfaces are stitched together with visible wire, suggesting both repair and restraint — an attempt to hold moments in place even as they slip away. Embedded watch faces, stripped of their function, accumulate like silent witnesses to passing hours, forgotten intentions, and delayed decisions.
The composition carries the tension between permanence and erosion. Burnt edges, layered pigments, and fractured textures evoke the slow realization that time does not wait for readiness or certainty. What appears stitched and stabilized remains vulnerable, marked by rupture and urgency.
We Thought We Had Time becomes a meditation on human assumption — the quiet confidence that there will always be another chance, another moment, another tomorrow. Through material fragmentation and suspended mechanisms of measurement, the work confronts the viewer with the unsettling awareness that time is not something we possess, but something that continually reshapes us.
Mixed media with handmade paper, acrylic, India ink, wire, and watch faces on panel, 11'x 16", 2023.