Wasting Time

This work examines the tragedy of the “time is money” mindset, which has colonized our leisure hours and distorted the simple moments of joy. The image of children “swimming” through wildflowers represents a total immersion in the physical world – a state where the boundaries of the self dissolve into the environment. The artwork invites us to remember a life lived without an internal clock, before we began calculating the “worth” of our actions against our productivity. The black sky looming above suggests a day that has slipped away unnoticed: a perceived “waste” that is, in reality, a profound victory of presence.