Into the Moment invites us to play with slow looking. In the world of slow looking, you stop peering at the surface of things and begin seeing what’s inside them. Beyond the paint and panel lies the hush, the spark–the slow unravelling that begins when we truly meet a work of art on its own terms.

Ask yourself, it suggests: What is special about this?

Ask it again. Ask it often. Each time, something subtle shifts. The gaze softens. The breath deepens. Meaning rises like a gentle mist. Once this begins, even the ordinary starts to feel laced with magic.

Shaped like an hourglass and anchored in gold, the piece is anything but punctual. It gestures past wristwatches and deadlines toward something slower, stranger. Cosmic time. Tree time. Tectonic time. The kind of time that doesn’t care what day it is. And then past even that – toward the place where time disappears altogether.

At the centre is “OK Girl,” a recurring glyph of curiosity, resilience, and wild grace. Here she’s caught mid-fall, mid-flight–tumbling across the strata of Punakaiki’s ancient layered limestone. Time you can see. Time that runs on million-year ticks.

The phrase at the base reads:

ART – FALLING OUT OF TIME INTO THE MOMENT

That’s the invitation. Once inside a gallery, you could glance and move on–and miss everything. Or you could loop back. Sit. Stand close. Step away. Tilt your head. Tilt your heart. See if the painting speaks differently each time. It likely will.

Galleries are among the last public spaces where you’re allowed–maybe even expected–to stand still and look until something opens. And when it does, after an hour or three, you might discover that everything, absolutely everything, is special. Not because you found an explanation, but because something inside the work reached something inside you.

Einstein put it this way:

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

You already know which one this painting recommends.

Oil, alkyd, polyurethane over imitation gold leaf and spun-bonded polyethylene fabric on PVC multiboard.

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