Temporal scarcity means the knowledge a person has that what they have can disappear at any

time.  Especially specific for all of us living in a pandemic, this concept increases as a person

ages and though I never thought of it in my 20’s and 30’s, I certainly do on a daily basis in

present times.  Temporal scarcity, and looking to the future to appreciate the present would be a good tie

into the concepts of my work and why I wish to present something I find beautiful in conjunction

with a feeling or experience that is both sad and possibly emotionally dark.

In the book by Michael A. Singer titled “the untethered soul” he writes about the removing an

inner thorn that most people have in acknowledgement that there is something impinging

their growth.  Many people keep the thorn and build their lives around it.  But for me, I wish to remove

the thorn and carry on without it, to be truly free of the thorn “regret”.  By creating works such as

the one above, I can take something ugly or not right and make it beautiful.  As regret speaks of

the existential road not taken, art can speak of my journey, good or bad and have the viewer

translate it into their own visual language. It is not my job to inform the viewer, in fact I wish for

them to create their own story when viewing my work.