Oil on Panel, 19½x 15½ inches

Each panel in this triptych is an idiosyncratic expression of the three cardinal states of time. The flowers were chosen intuitively, primarily based on emotional response. As it turned out, each flower has strong symbolic content very well suited to the central idea. As an experiment, I set myself up with a few problems to solve. First, each of the panels had to have a single dominant color, white, red, or black. Second, each had to include a circular vessel of some kind. Third, each had to include the circular motif of a flower. Fourth, each panel had to include an element the color of the dominant in the other two panels. 

The Flower featured is the Daisy, from Anglo-Saxon, “daes eage”, or “day’s eye”, which refers to the way the petals open with the dawn.

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