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The Passage of Time

PassageOfTime
The Passage of Time
Alex Hinders, 2013.
Colored pencils and pen.

I had a birthday in one of the previous months of this year. I have a birthday every year, as you may or may not know, but this was one special because it was my only birthday in 2013. (I thought about having a second but that seemed excessive.) So around that period of time I started thinking about the passage of time, growing older, and what the future may hold.

I’m pretty sure all of the women in this picture are me at different stages of my life, except the largest figure, which represents the sum total of my life experience. Notice that her right arm goes out of the picture. Since the figure is my ‘absolute self’, it contains versions of me that haven’t happened yet, so not all of the figure can be shown.

I rather like the idea of a person being the hands of their own personal clock.