Melting Popsicles

Melting Popsicles.




Melting Popsicles: HW Exercise for Intro to Painting, Fall 2008, TC, NYC.

I now see that this is a metaphor for time slipping away, which brings meaning to Dali’s melting clocks which never really made sense to me before. “Time and tide wait for no man”. Make that Time, Tide and Uneaten Popsicles wait for no man”. The melting clocks show the concept of time as represented by a time piece, in a dynamic not static state. Time is fleeting, and is essentially melting like the popsicles. The underlying message from this exercise is that we need to “Just Start It”, not “Just Do It” as Nike insists. Sometimes we don’t know “how to” or “what to do” and procrastination kicks in while we are stuck in the phase of “pre-doing”. Like writer’s block in getting the book proposal completed. Melting lollipops, melting clocks, melting time, unwritten books, lost opportunities.
“Three things that come not back, the spoken word, the sped arrow and the lost opportunity.”Omar Kyham.

Now we can add to that the melted popsicle and Dali’s melted clocks.