ABOUT THE WORK

Considered as one of the more successful mid-career artists, Marcel Antonio is notable for a body of figurative work characterized by an Edenic innocence, a Picassoesque beauty. In “Little Drops of Time”, Antonio plumbs the mythic memory to enflesh a story of how time came to be. Here, two women seem to be competing over the attention of a man. The dejected one drops water on a basin, creating, in effect, “ripples of time” which gets stratified between past, present, and future. From here on, separation, suffering, and death will be a given. Nothing and no one will be permanent and definite: all have to bow to time’s tyrannical rule.