The Single Maxim · MS-04
The world is change. Life is judgement.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV.3. An adapted wording, not a literal translation; the original is usually rendered as the idea that the world is transformation and life is opinion, or judgement.
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Story
The idea behind the work
The work sets the change of the world beside the role of personal perspective. The hourglass suggests flowing time, and Marcus Aurelius reminds us that the way we judge experience gives it meaning.
The meaning in the painting
The hourglass emerges from a stone surface that cracks and comes away in gold-edged layers. Around it the matter changes and the sand flows; only the hourglass keeps its clear form, like the gaze that gives meaning to what passes.
Craft
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