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Modern Hands In Arcadia (Cronus) Cronus is the personification of time. The Romans identified Cronus with their god Saturn. Saturn, the Sower, was also a god of agriculture. He held a scythe and an hourglass. Cronus
eating his children was used in a poetic sense for time devouring all
things, as in the old saying "nothing lasts forever" "I was commissioned to do paintings for an Artist's Against War Exhibition: This is one of them". Two
severed hands floating in the road represent "modern disconnected
people" upon the road of history, the further back into the background,
the further one is into history. The salamander is a charm against the
Devil. Crawling forth from a campfire they were thought to have been
impervious to fire and are used as charms (worn on clothing) in Italy. One
is known by their works. "The hands create...it is important for those
of us who have such gifts and who are successful to give something back
in order to enrich the fabric of society".
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