Daniel Mace - Atemporal Art

The oil paintings presented here are most often symbolic, metaphors portraying psychological and social dynamics. Click on any image for additional information.

The amphorae were fashioned by human hands and fired to transform the fragile clay into resistant terra cotta.

The earthenware vessels were made using available materials and techniques, were hollow and ready to receive olive oil, grains, grape seeds, fruit pits, nuts, honey, resins and pitch.

Love is a burnin’ thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire

I fell into a burnin’ ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The ring of fire, the ring of fire

The world population undergoes a gradual transformation.

Transcending usual forms of behavior and understanding to access unknown regions of world and psyche.

In the vastness and the cold vacuum of inter-stellar space a friendly helping hand can mean everything when lacking any one of the essentials for survival.

An evolved civilization keeps its eye open for those in need.

Imagine our perspective is toward our interior – looking inward to explore organic structures, sub-structures, and processes. We are in a fluid environment with ascending levels of organization and intelligence.

Or perhaps our perspective is exterior – looking out on some extra-planetary beings as they launch themselves into their outer space, an integral step in their evolution as a species.

This seed, or organ, is bathed in red, penetrating, healing energy. The separated halves of a whole are knitting the rift.

The seed will grow into a healthy mature plant. Healing!

On another planet with climatic conditions we would consider extreme, the living and transport vessels are adapted to heavy radiation from a very hot sun. Navigation of acid waters, presence of regular electric storms, release of caustic rains, and various geological obstacles to safe passage, stimulate adaptive responses and new technologies.

Otherwise, it’s life as usual…;o)

Figures in an abstract landscape.

This image describes a context of abundance, in a cosmological setting. Where sky ends, universe begins. The mind reflects the actual world, while investing it with understanding.

Harmony and optimism are expressed in the aura of light which illuminates and penetrates all things.

The season has been abundant and schools of swimming creatures follow the flow of life-giving nourishment.