Right now, on the main page of Charles Broskoski’s personal website, one views paintings created with digital tools as well as clocks which read-out the amount of time passed since each artwork was initially uploaded to the site (in this case, for the more recently uploaded painting “2 days ago…” and, for the less recently uploaded painting “3 weeks ago…”).
One, thus, views both the paintings and the paintings’ built-in obsolescence.
The most recently uploaded painting, Avocado, is a token of a traditional painting genre – the still life with fruit; on the other hand – with its ghostly, blurred brush work which fights to keep from dripping down (to the past of the artist’s painting) and up (to the future of the artist’s painting) – the work is an allegory of painting on the computer:
Not present in space, but streaming through time, fighting for its life to be there in the room (on the screen) despite the inevitability of its passing.
That is to say:
1. A picture of avocados (they are there).
2. A picture of avocados blurring through time from future (an ideal) to past (a memory) (they’re gone – ghosts).