What about time? We need time to create and time to absorb what was created. We can grasp a painting at a glance or let it unfold in a linear fashion like a story. For instance, it takes time to consider eight possible fates of a rooster - a tiger's dinner, a cock fight, a ride on a boy's head from farm to table, the care of children, afetish. It also takes time to imagine the fates of the occupants of Dun-sinane in their horror at finding Birnam Woods at their door. To ponder our lives, and perhaps our own fates, requires recurring images in a continuous loop as in a reverie.
- Anne Elliott on her works in About Time