For my Grade 11 summative in my Visual Arts Course, we had to chose a thematic topic and create a painting demonstrating it. I chose the topic of ‘Time’ and how time is evolving in history.

My concept for this painting was heavily inspired by Salvador Dali’s ‘Persistence of Memory’ and his abstract use of the melting clocks. I wanted to create a similar idea using an old analog clock '“melting” into sand, trapped in a hourglass to represent the idea of time evolving but also time running out.

The title ‘Fallin Outta Time’ was inspired by a song called “Running Out Of Time” by Tyler, the creator. Music has definitely been a big inspiration to me and listening to that song knowing it’s about someone running out of time to make the person they love, love them back was manipulated to the idea of time and how someone has a relationship with time. Time is running out but I want more time back, which is the concept of the hourglass. You only have as long as the sand in an hourglass, once your sand is finished, you have to restart and flip the hourglass.