Sophie Ashdown

Continuing creating a new piece of art every day for thirty days…

The prompt for this day was about “your biggest pressure.”

Without doubt my biggest pressure is time, or lack of it. I feel like I’m constantly being pulled from one direction to another with never enough time for everything.

Have you ever had those conversations (or the dreaded meeting ice-breaker) where someone asks if you could have any superpower what would it be? Inevitably someone says they want to fly and another says they want to be invisible. Maybe some rogue will say they want x-ray vision.

I would unequivocally say that I would want the superpower to be able to control the speed of time. To be able to stop it, slow it down, speed it up, etc. I don’t necessarily think I would need to go backwards or forwards in time because think that has too many ripple effects. I would love to pause time when I have something to do and not enough time to do it. To slow down time when I’m having an amazing time. To speed it up when I’m not. Imagine pausing time in the morning so you can sleep as long as you want!?! Speeding up long haul flights? Slowing down a massage? Ah what bliss.

So therefore my piece for this day was about time and I titled it “Time is not my friend”:

Unfortunately I don’t actually like the piece. I wish I hadn’t put in the squiggly and curved lines. I feel it makes the piece look cartoonish and a bit silly. Like something on the wall of a clown show.

This certainly wouldn’t be one that I make as a larger piece. I should have paused time so I could remake a better one in the first place.