The Mountains You Will Move

In many of my artworks I have talked about the way time affects us. It is almost a form of hate speech toward something that will never change. Time will always be there ticking away, nibbling at our comfort zone, and the older we get, the faster it seems to go. 

It is something I ponder in great depth and more often than I would like to admit. 

I want the fountain of youth, but knowing that this centuries old thought pattern leads to nothing, there has to be another way. I feel that the way is to become at peace with the concept, or to change our relationship with it. 

One method of making time last which works for me is to remove routine. But as it happens, routine is the birth of persistence, which in term creates success and money, then money helps you escape routine. I call that being stuck in a pickle. 

Once we have money, we have the opportunity to create more varied, less routine-like life experiences to gain relief from that Old Bald Cheater… Time!

So what comes next? This question leads me to the meaning behind this artwork…. Persistence. 

Without persistence, we can’t break the wheel of time. Persistence pushes us past an average outcome and throws us into a new realm where an exit strategy from routine is possible. 

For twenty years I felt like the man in this artwork, and I wanted to in the most extreme and humorous way possible express this feeling. Anyone who knows the meaning of walk the desert will understand this artwork. Walking the desert is an analogy applied to an entrepreneur when they set their mind on a goal and set out on this adventure, it is inevitable that they will find themselves alone in the desert, walking for weeks, if not years wondering if the mirage on the horizon is real. It can be a lonely tough time, but comes with many rewards. 

Many understand that the desert has to be walked, but no one can for a second imagine the feeling of what it will entail. 

What challenges lie on the horizon are up to the whims of the world. The wind will blow against you, the enormity of the challenge will test you and your sanity will be stretched to its full potential. 

But in another way it is beautiful. The outcomes, whether apparent or not at the time, are incredibly valuable, even in failure. The failures often yield more insight and learning than the successes as it gives us an opportunity to grow. 

All this being said, persistence gets us to the other side of routine, therefore giving us money and time and a way to the fountain of youth. 

All in my opinion of course.