TIME WILL TELL, 2009,   

22x30, Graphite, acrylic on paper, $7,500

KALTENBACH ANNOTATIONS:  This is a time capsule, a stainless steel container at least 12 feet in diameter. It is to contain the annual commentary of the people of Earth that has been collected selected by a series of curators for one thousand years. After a millennium it is to be opened and the contents made available to scholars. I am interested in creating a running commentary on the times that our civilization experiences. This is what happens anyway as events and the evolution of consciousness flow down the time stream and the interests and imperatives of the human family evolve. I would however like to see the effects on the historical record of a purposeful accumulation of the thoughts of people from all walks of life who are interested in speaking to their posterity.

This work in my mind is a most positive take on the future of our civilization, a culture which is educated and retains scholarly pursuits such as history. The options are, a thousand years of peace or the recovery from the ravages of limited war. This will be meaningless if we descend into another Dark Age by nuclear holocaust or world conquest of an adequately repressive dictatorial state that disallows freedom of thought.

The KLEINES KLOSTER Time Capsule is not a container but rather a pin-hole camera, so that if you face it, your image is projected on the back wall inside. This represents the path of inaction as a response to difficult times, a retreat. The possibility of withdrawing into a monk's cell-like space facilitates the turning inward to seek answers, that quiet communion with the soul and spirit. This is old knowledge.

5" x 5" x 5", Steel, Price on Request                                                           4" x 4" x 14",  aluminum,   Price on Request 

6" (diam) x 16",  Steel,                                                         6" (diam) x 16",  Steel                                               6" (diam) x 16",  Steel  

Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands                                   Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands                         Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands