PhD Candidate
Cornell University
Department of Communication
Time Outside Reality
Artist: Andria Crowjoy
Affiliation: Staff
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Artist Description
In crip time, we reimagine what can happen when we honor our bodies' and minds' true relationship with time, stepping outside society's rigid expectations into something more honest and intrinsic. With ADHD and stroke-related time blindness, I navigate daily life by forcing awareness of time's passage and anchoring myself to routines that mark moments. This piece is one created over four days snowed in at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts retreat space. Isolated in the studio, with only grey light and the rhythm of painting, sleeping, and eating, I discovered what time feels like when it belongs to me and truly recognized the tyranny of normative time. Taking four days away to paint feels like an act of defiance and a declaration that time, sometimes, can be suspended. This still life captures a moment of freedom from the expectations to "keep" time. Painted over a 15-year-old canvas, the visible layers beneath remind me that my past self is always with me and that creating something tangible holds time in a way I couldn't keep otherwise.
Visual Description of Piece
Acrylic painting showing a studio corner with a bright red rolling cart or table holding various containers and jars in blues and greens. A broom with a dark handle leans against the cart. The background is painted in warm yellow tones and viewers can see evidence of the underlying 15-year-old painting peeking through in places.
Notes from the art creation process
A long studio with a white tile floor and a ceiling made of light brown planks. The room is filled with tables, paint supplies, and easels, and there is a tarp laid out on a portion of the floor. Outside the window, snow coats the ground and the tree branches.
A room filled with colorful paintings lining the floors and propped against a wooden easel, which sits atop a paint-splattered tarp.
A table full of snacks, medicine and nutritional supplements beside a snowy window.
A more zoomed out perspective of the snack, medicine and supplement table that includes more snowy window, cleaning supplies and an easel with a yellow painting of a bird on it.
A room filled with paintings propped against an easel and various surfaces. Outside the windows, barren branches and a snowy ground intermingle.
Link to retreat space where Andria’s piece was created: https://www.saltonstall.org/retreat/retreat-space/
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