"Senescence"

Mixed technique : Painting, graphic: Watercolor, ink, Graphite, natural walnut bark dye on paper
Size: 70/100 cm

The painting express the old age phase of our life. In this moment it is said that you become wiser you reevaluate your comportament, atitudine, your words, your life. You begin to "measure" it, to see different, to see more of what you should have had and less of what you shouldn't have, you put into balance your life, memories, deeds, decisions, regrets, choices etc. You begin to balance your own passed, present and future time, symbolized in the work by the scale. Instead of the shadow of the scale, it's drawn the roman numeral XII,(12),which is a number with many meanings and symbols. It can either open a door to another world such as everything changes, takes another shape, time loses it's temporality/ dimensions when it's XII o'clock , or either when the clock strikes 00:00 o'clock everything turns back to normal, everything turns back into the real appearance. XII is the border between real and unreal, imaginary and reality, and time is both real and unreal. One second can seem to be forever, and forever can seem a second...sometimes. :)
And as he (the man's portrait) "measures" his life/time, his personal time the rest of the time, the world's time, around/ in front/ behind him, continues to pass the same. It continues to move, to develop in it's own way, continues to go further. The world's time it's symbolized by the oblique lines, the vertical lines, and by the building scaffolds, crane arms and stairs.