istor-o-nal Painting

Painting background: alternating metallic acrylic paint. Image: oil, acrylic and chinese ink on wood panels. Large format painting. Tetraptych. With this series of paintings called 'our babylonic brain' , I have juxtaposed different images and tried to expose opposing time scales that are, however, synchronous. On the bottom half of this tetraptych is the image one of the highest mountain 'istor-o-nal' in the hindukush forged through the movement of the tectonic plates. In the upper half is the image of a soccer player at the point of kick off. Both are activities of massive energy occurring, however, within completely different time scales, one fleeting, the other more or less permanent, yet both within the same universe. The idea came to me when I read the last verse of a poem by Lavinia Greenlaw: There is a way into the mountain. It opens and closes and comes to rest beneath the bed of a river. Yourself as slow and sudden as rock. Above - listen! - the hidden continuous.