Artist Gina Jrel

	Time in a Bottle © Artist Gina Jrel, 2007 Medium: Oil, acrylic, sand, red variegated metal leafing, copper washers, and vintage watch parts from an old clock repair man on gallery-wrapped canvas Dimensions: 15"w x 40" h Edge Treatment: Gallery-wrapped canvas edges are hand-painted solid black, spotted with rustic colored, painted highlites, and adorned with vintage watch parts. Framing: N/A Original available for purchase: Private Collection / Santa Clara, Utah, USA Available in Giclee: Yes Based on the One-Liner: "If I could make days last forever... If words could make wishes come true..." From the Song: Time in a Bottle Performed By: Jim Croce From the CD: Greatest Hits About the Painting: I knew from the start I wanted to use this song, but it has so many awesome lyrics, I had trouble choosing which line. I ended up writing all of my favorite lines from this song on the back side of the painting. Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" is a love song, but for me it also represents my constant, life-long battle with time. Time! There is never enough! It passes too quickly. Slides and slips away. I can never get everything done. I am always chasing the clock, and it’s always winning! I am convinced heaven is a place where there are no clocks, or deadlines (or bees or raisins of course). It would be lovely to be able to stop time (even for one week!), or save it in a bottle for when you need more of it. This piece is adorned with some fantastic old vintage clock parts that I competed fiercely for on ebay. They came from the workshop of a retired clock repair dude. It was wonderful to sort through all of the hands, faces, gadgets and gears, and choose those I wanted to include. The sand inside the bottle is texturized with real sand, mixed into the gesso to give it a bumpy, grainy look and feel. Not intended, but keeping with the concept of this piece, it took a lot of time to complete the painting. It went through many stages before it finally came around and began to feel finished. The glazing on the variegated leafing alone took almost three weeks...applying layer after layer of thin, almost transparent sheens.