"Father Time" ,Liana Turnbull Bennett.
27" tall, 9" wide, 17" long.
Mixed media and acrylic. 2006.
This work is a contrast to the stereotypical view of 'Father Time'. It shows Father Time with a more conceptual perspective, rather than the, more common, literal idea. This would be a wizened old hermit with a long white beard wearing robes and carrying a staff.
Turnbull Bennett has taken an animal skull, painted it with images from the hubble telescope and also incorporated rusted parts from an antique clock. These elements present us with a Father Time who does not control time, but who is ravaged by time, as everything else is. Aged and as infinite as the universe it's self.
" I wanted to illustrate time in relation to space. Time as infinity..." says Liana Turnbull Bennett on her blog.
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