the trace of time

#1China Town in New York City (2007)

The layers of the advertisements on the surface of posts in the street reveal the stack of time. The partly torn papers show the back and forth progression(tear and stick) of the growing amount of stacking papers.



#2Cy Twombly (1985) Wilder Shores of Love
Oil, crayon, and pencil on plywood
55 1/8 x 47 1/4" (140 x 120 cm)
Private collection

In the painting by Cy Twombly, the traces of time are engraved in the form of brush strokes and scribbles. The brush strokes at the bottom and the scribbles on the top show the trace of the brush with which we can imagine how the brush would have moved on the canvas in process of time. The layered strokes and the intensity of color also imply the preceding and following of order and direction of applying the brush.