Pamela Flynn

STATEMENT

Facing Time
always trying to understand

Facing Time is about life and life is about death and life/death is about time. The fourteen 12 x 12 and two 24x 24 mixed media paintings represent the progression of time. I am using the black beaded circle to represent the ever present looming nature of death. The flowers are blooming and alive in all the paintings- they are life- but they are being edged out and finally gone from the final canvas.

I do not read these  sixteen paintings as sad or morbid-I read them as life-and the beauty of life-the gift of life.

The small works that complete Facing Time are a bit different in that as I looked back on the completed sixteen paintings, I started to personally indentify the black circle as being fear. These pieces that followed, are darker and less joyful, and the final sculpture is an attempt to make fear an object-not a two dimensional rending, but an actual object. I elevated the objet fear onto a plinth to give fear the respect that it deserves.

 In this series I ponder the fact that hovering amidst the beauty of life, is a darkness, and that darkness is death. Unlike most memento mori art works, I am not interested in the traditional symbols that are usually used to remind us that death is part of the living. The black circle does not have the narrative aspect of a skull or hour glass-the black circle is beautiful but ominous. There is no narrative related to it-the black circle belongs to the viewer.

I give no answers in my work. I share the act of the contemplation of life.

Pamela Flynn
412 Wildwood Place, Lake Como, NJ 07719
Phone:732-749-3577
Email: dmfbeach@aol.com