time

Thought behind the thought
Time is your greatest friend and your worst enemy at the same time. It teaches you humility, gives you hope and pervades your life from the minute you were born till you take your last breath! Or maybe even later, or earlier than that. No one has been able to understand time fully. And it remains an unknown force that you can combat at times, or simply surrender to!

About the art
The concept of time has been explored by many scientists across the world and there are as many theories about its essence. Some of these scientific facts are put in front of the layperson with amazing clarity in the video below.
Animation, as a form of entertainment, is very popular. But animation to explain scientific concepts and that too, so lucidly, is indeed remarkable. Almost an art by itself!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrqmMoI0wks

time

Thought behind the Thought
That time flies, is a fact well known and well accepted by all. And the right time flies even more quickly. Before you know it, the right moment has moved ahead and you are left with your dreams and aspirations, trying desperately to catch up with it.
It is a chase as exhausting, as it is frustating! How does one know that the time is 'right'. And having realised that it has left, how does one reconcile to the fact and go about setting things right?

About the Art
The concept of time has inspired many artists to create innovative art, whether it is painting, or sculpture, or installations. Here is how artists have chosen to represent the concept, each unique and interesting in its own way.

Time Flies 2012 by Ursula Gerber Senger

(Selected work for the 7th From Lausanne to Beijing "International Fiber Art Exhibition Nantong City, Jiang Su Province, China "1895" Cultural and Creative Industrial Park)

“Time flies” stands for the rapid changes being experienced in today’s world. In my work I am depicting the speed and the pace of today’s world.

Our workflow and mobility is becoming more rapid and faster, human relationships are becoming more challenging and more demanding and social bonding more fragile. The flood of information we are receiving today causes a fragile surface like walking on thin ice, on which we struggle and grasp for orientation. (Ursula Gerber Senger)

Source: 

http://www.ursula-gerber.ch/time-flies3-de.html

 

As time Flies by James L.Hayes

Commissioned by Cork City Council in 2008 this large- scale work was created in consultation with Michael Punch & Partners Consulting Engineers and was fabricated by A&A Engineering in Dublin.

The concept of this public work is underpinned by an ongoing concern with the ‘everyday object’. Conceptually the work also corresponds to the artist’s continued and ongoing desire to transform the most humble and ephemeral of objects, e.g. a childlike kite, into celebratory and permanent relics. A permanent fixture on the North Cork city skyline, this work aims to embody and explore a sense of optimism, social confidence and also signifies and connotes aspects of expression, play, flight and departure. (James L.Hayes)

Source: 

http://www.jameslhayes.ie/home/as-time-flies/

http://www.publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/as-time-flies/19b07ed8a1a02b165c2d29afbd26b5b0/

Time Flies By by How & Nosm. Spray Paint on DC 3 for The Boneyard Project

The Bone Yard Project revives disused airplanes from America’s military history through the creative intervention of contemporary artists, taking entire airplanes and their elements out of aeronautic resting spots in the desert, known as boneyards, and putting them into the hands of artists.

How and Nosm (Raoul and Davide Perre), the creators of the above art,  are identical twin brothers known for their large scale graffiti based murals that adorn city walls around the world. The red, black, and white-based imagery is instantly recognizable and commands attention through the impressive size and the intricate detail.

Source: 

http://www.howandnosm.com/

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/02/the-boneyard-project-art-on-old-planes/

Time flies by sand artist Joe Castillo

Artist, author, pastor and entrepreneur, Joe Castillo grew up surrounded by art and the cosmopolitan culture of an international city. He has continued to nurture his artistic roots. He has also developed a number of “Live Art” presentations that use intricately crafted illustrations to teach Biblical truths as they unfold. His latest artistic venture called “Sand Art”, is a live-art presentation performed to music and projected for a stunning visual effect. Joe is an artist, author and storyteller with a passion for promoting the visual arts as a way of touching the heart.

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URIofhHKug

http://www.joecastillo.com/who-he-is/

flowers

The Zundert Flower Parade has been running since 1936. Around twenty hamlets near the town of Zundert build the best floats they can in order to establish their name at the annual flower parade. The flower parade uses only dahlias. After a whole year of work and preparations, the parade is celebrated on the first Sunday of September each year. The colorful creations of the Zundert Flower Parade attract tens of thousands of visitors every year.

Everything is done by volunteers, even the cultivation of the dahlias. In order to prepare the floats for the big parade, hundreds of people join together. The art of building the Zundert Parade floats has been passed down from generation to generation. A staggering six to eight million dahlia flowers are used to produce the floats. Huge floats are made of wire, cardboard and papier-mâché and entirely covered in dahlias in intricate designs. The dahlias for grown specifically for the parade and thousands of them are required just to cover one float. The floats are made by twenty different hamlets and each of them consists of hundreds of builders, aged 1 to 100, who are all equally crazy about the Bloemencorso. The older members of the hamlet are often responsible for planting and growing the dahlias, while the younger ones build the float in large temporary tents that are built exclusively for the event. In Zundert, flower floats aren’t just pretty but they contain movement, can be blown up, frozen in ice or besmirched in paint.The floats are prepared as early as May or June with papier-mâché and wire - but to ensure the brilliance of the flowers the dahlias are only attached three days before the parade.

During the Zundert Flower Parade the town is charged with excitement. On Sunday and Monday, all kinds of music and theater performances are conducted for all. Zundert is on the border with Belgium, so the flower parade for both Dutch and Belgians to enjoy.

The tiny town of Zundert is most famously known as the birthplace of master painted Vincent Van Gogh, and the Bloemencorso parade honors his artistic spirit. The town’s tradition is to only use dahlia flowers to decorate each float, shows the transformative power that flowers can achieve with a little imagination!

for more, visit : http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/09/corso-zundert-flower-parade-2014/