TERRESTRIAL CLOCK
The patterns of life exist on many planes of our reality; our perspectives often limit that reality and we often go through our days without acknowledging the forces that are at work. Life on Earth is integrated in ways we are only now realizing are connected. The lunar cycles effect the tides, the tilt of the earth dictates our climate, and the organisms that exist on the surface create a particular atmosphere... all these forces play into each other and influence our existence.
The cycle of life that are evident in the rings of trees, the erosion of the earth, and the transfer of energy all compose and decompose our environment. There is an equilibrium and balance that can be attained on the short term, and there is an inevitable chaos that is constantly in check with that balance. Entropy can happen at different paces, and the entropy of the environment can be drastic and extreme or miniscule and imperceptible. Likewise, we break down at different paces and are proxies of our environment... the reality and environment of whole worlds exist within us.
Life is sometimes witnessed as a chain of events or a great system of metaphorical cogs and machinery, with causes and consequences...but the variables that swarm our world still elude any attempt to constrain or control the forces of change. Instead of interfering with the cycles of existence, we should study the patterns that are at work and learn how to flow with the changes.
Cycles of Energy and Life (Terrestrial Clock), 2022. Printed media collage, 10.25"x 11.5".
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