“The longer I live the more I would like to put the world in suspension and grip the present before it is eaten by the next second and becomes the past” Siri Hustveldt “Mysteries of the Rectangle” – recommended reading

There are moments when we can feel this way about any experience. The artist Eithne Jordan has always had a most singularly amazing way of presenting a static image with all the energy and possibilities of what it felt like to be there still locked into it. Hustveldt talks about the “immutable stillness” of a painting – she notes that it differs from all other art forms because the whole story is there all at once. It’s not revealed in a sequence of chapters, movements or frames – visual art lives outside time. In daily life we are constantly editing stimuli, we are choosing what we need to see to survive – missing much of the detail. In paintings we can look, rest, return – paintings wait for us to see our own truth in them. www.rubicongallery.ie & https://www.facebook.com/RubiconGallery/ [Image by Eithne Jordan, Forest iii, gouache/paper is courtesy of the artist and Rubicon Gallery]