A small aged brass hourglass with almost no sand left in the top, casting a long soft shadow on a dark blue background.

Original artwork, not a still

Pæstum

Samuel Rogers

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The line pictures disappearing into the gaps and cracks that time has worn open. Time is imagined as a slow erosion, and vanishing as slipping quietly through its openings. The tone reads as wistful and resigned rather than violent, an unnoticed fading away.

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