PLANAR TIME

The image, which symbolizes life as a journey of perseverance, is based on a photograph of my mother Sara and my uncle Jack when they were children growing up in New York City. As you can see the pony has been made almost invisible, detected only by a faint outline and the shadow it casts. Invisible, it becomes a spirit horse, what the Chinese call a horse of the wind. In the distance, the children and the horse are seen again at another stage of their journey. The work shows time to be all of one piece rather than just a series of vanishing moments. Time, the fourth dimension, becomes an existing availability like the three dimensions of length, width, and height. It too, is a physical plane on which the children and the horse traverse, hence the title, Planar Time.