This is the replacement piece for Dust Devil Swept You Away, which was sold yesterday. This piece, Whatever It Was That Happened That One Time Long Ago, is about change...evolution in a way. The idea is that, as you move through the piece, you are witnessing a change in an object, a "timelpase" of sorts from start to finish. It's a lie in that you are not watching something change...you are seeing a number of totally different objects...but presented in this way, with that title, with that context, it's easy to assume the shapes are actually morphing, each a snapshot portion of a larger fluid evolution.
It speaks to brevity and immediacy in an endless and timeless way. It's a number of specific moments of any change in any timeline at any point in history. A history painting with no specific date or event.
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