TIME
Over the years, I kept looking into the remains of Mayan culture, trying to find some connections, and I started to realize that there have been only very few people who boldly tried to ask serious questions about where the road was taking us. No ancient philosophers, records of civilizations, or modern science have been able to support us with answers concerning where we came from and where we are going. No organized, historical religions, not even the wish-to-be-scientific-sounding new age movements, have any underlying, actual basis.
Will the times come to an end?
The worldwide panic at the end of 2012 was caused by a combination of bad legend interpretations and the over-mystified use of the Mayan calendar. The Mayans had a vastly different concept about the passing of time. They considered it a divine gift, and they seemed to understand the sky too. One of the cycles of the Mayan calendar - according to the Gregorian one - started on August 11, 3114 BC, and is characterized by different terms. These can be a lot of help to archaeologists and historians as the Mayans have recorded several significant dates on monuments using adaptable, combinable, and highly artistic signage. Therefore, one of my favorite subjects is the tzolkin, also known as the 'holy count', which is a 260-day-long period divided up to 13 months. One of the signs symbolized by a mirror, called Etz ́nab, is similar to the outline of the Pyramid of the Sun, located in Teotihuacan, northeast of Mexico City.
The more information I gathered, the more confident I became about the fact that my thirst for knowledge would only increase, but nothing could stop the passing of time. When I look at this mirror-clock, it always reminds me to spend my time with important things.
The clock's creation took about 130 working hours and meticulous attention. Since my work is usually done under ultraviolet light, it is also handy to have the clock visible with or without any other light source. Moreover, the 26,000 photon-filled stars are also nighttime reminders of the shortness of human lifetimes. It is only up to us whether we let time just slip away or harness it and use it wisely.
“An Invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
