The Time Has Come

Fire is a very peculiar substance - does it have a substance? What is its texture, what is its form? Its elusiveness makes it fascinating to paint; it's instantaneous - it's burning now this very second. Fire is time, it's action, it moves with the breeze; it's dynamic. When the candle has burnt the flame will go out and the clock will have moved on an hour. The flame consumes the present and destroys all trace of the past, no wonder Lucifer the devil leant his name to the innocent phosphorous tipped match of wood.