Erosion of Eternity

“Erosion of Eternity.”

Bergson’s philosophy is especially resonant here. In Creative Evolution, he argued that reality is not a collection of fixed states but a continuous flow of becoming. Painting #13 embodies this intuition: its forms resist finality, they surge and erode, they live in flux.

Bergson would see in the flowing blues and crumbling ochres a visual metaphor for duration (durée)—the lived experience of time as indivisible continuity. Unlike spatialized clock time, Bergsonian duration is not a sequence of discrete moments but a ceaseless unfolding, like a river that both sustains and transforms. The painting reveals this metaphysical truth not through logical exposition, but through intuition: it compels us to feel temporality as transformation.

Furthermore, the tension between dark collapse and luminous renewal mirrors Bergson’s concept of the élan vital, the creative impulse that pushes life forward against resistance, shaping matter into ever-new forms. The jagged strokes are obstacles, but the flowing energies weave around and through them, revealing that creativity emerges not in spite of resistance, but through it.

Thus, “Erosion of Eternity” is not a depiction of decay alone—it is a hymn to the creative passage of time, where destruction and renewal are inseparable movements of becoming.