Key Dawn / Chronos’ Sickle
As a part of Milstone Nerve
May 17th - August 31st, 2025
The Visual Art Centre of Clarington
Key Dawn presents an assortment of large wooden keys adhered to a painted ring, creating a form that looks like both a large keyring and a sun. Thinking about keys as a tool for unlocking new pathways, this sun-like form becomes a threshold of sorts: an invitation to gaze out at a strange, vast, figurative horizon. Painted assets overlaid onto images of the the unknown sky borrow from the aesthetics of punk subcultures: studs, peircings, and flowing chains.
Chronos' Sickle is a series of seven paintings dispursed throughout the galleries. Similarly alluding the the switchblades, motorcycles and keyrings quintessential to the punk aesthetic, the works are named after the personification of time and their tool of choice: each variation including some presence of blades, keys, clock hands, or other pointed objects fanned out in various configurations that riff on the visual of abstracted clocks and ancient sundials.
Embodying the bold defiance, radicality and mutual aid of punk subcultures of the 1980s / 1990s, these contributions present a magick assortment of tools that may help us defiantly shape, measure, or traverse through the throes of time. Unweildly yet strangely abundant.
Photos Courtesy of LF Documentation
Key Dawn House paint, screws, graphite, and acryla gouache on images adhered to laser cut wood
Dimensions Variable
2025
Left:
Chronos' Sickle (Balisong Ver.)
Acryla gouache on wood panel
11” x 14”
2025
Right:
Chronos' Sickle (Ethernet Ver.)
Graphite and acryla gouache on photographs adhered to wood panel
11” x 14”
2025
Chronos' Sickle (Sgtandard Ver.)
Matallic spray paint, masking fluid, and acryla gouache on wood panel
11” x 14”
2025
Chronos’ Sickle (Witch Time Ver.)Graphite, and acryla gouache on wood panel
11” x 14”
2025
Lightning KeyAcryla gouache on laser cut wood
Dimensions Variable
2025
Chronos’ Sickle (Biology Ver.)Acryla gouache on photographs adhered to wood panel
11” x 14”
2025
Chronos’ Sickle (Navigation Ver.)Acryla gouache on photograph adhered to wood panel
11” x 14”
2025