Sands of time

For this series I am basing my pieces on citations/quotes about time. This first piece is using a verse of the poem “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882 ).

Sands of time is an interesting subject because the patterns of sand on the beach change with the tides, ie twice a day and the intricate patterns that are either randomly or intentionally made during the six hours of low tide are soon washed away as the water rises.

This piece is an abstract depiction; on old linen sheeting I printed random items I found on the beach and boot prints in blue pigment and then overpainted with yellow natural earth pigment. The verse of the poem was added with ink and then I over-stitched by machine and finally hand stitched bare footprints to accentuate the footsteps and give texture to the untouched sand.