Spanish Skount in the Netherlands wonders today about the evaporation of time, ever slipping from your fingers.
He says his new mural, of which he has done perhaps a hundred that we know of over the last few years, is inspired by a quote about time by the poet Virgil, “Tempus Fugit”
“Sed fugit interea, irreparavile tempus fugit”
(But time is lost, which never will renew).
Skount. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 2016. (photo © Skount)
Somehow we have not mastered it, and time continues to wait for no one. “I painted this mural as a reflection of the time that eludes us,” the philosopher street artist tells us. “Living life as a pursuit of distant goals that can sometimes be a burden. Rather than live as a set of present moments, planned in the short term; time flies, time slips away, time is diluted and only leaves us memories in the memory.”
Skount. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 2016. (photo © Skount)
Skount. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 2016. (photo © Skount)
Skount. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 2016. (photo © Skount)
Skount. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 2016. (photo © Skount)
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