Time--how does it become transformed within our psyches? The novels of Marias and Barnes explain time to their readers in concepts transcending the present. Memory begins from the moment of event occurrence. Events pass through our perceptual mechanisms resulting in as many renditions of an event are there are people. Twisting and turning of memory elements make us into whom we imagine ourselves to be. Time becomes critical in the process.
I was inspired by the work of Julian Barnes and Javier Marias as I viewed this image into being. Each looks at time and remembrance some place in their novels, The Sense of an Ending (Barnes) and Dark Back of Time (Marias). Barnes writes that "time grounds us and then confounds us." (102) How true! Marias expresses the same in a different way: "Everything is fractured" and "nothing is known with certainty and everything is told figuratively" (201). Time is the critical factor caught in a moment of my imagination and frozen there for time (unless I decide to change it) thus confounding me even more. Wait until I read Proust--will it be the English or French version? Time will tell.
Remembering Time, Monotype with charcoal and oil, 9 3/4 X 5, $250 USD
Copyright Charlotte Shroyer 2016
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