1975 | Arc (after Zeno)

Title: Arc 1-3
Material: Acrylic binder, oxide pigment/canvas (three panels)
Dimension: each 190 cm x 98 cm, 190 cm x 294 cm overall
Date: 1975

Arc Nos 1, 2 & 3
Arc Nos 1, 2 & 3

Zeno of Elea: When both space and time are continuous we have the so-called paradox of the arrow.  … The flying arrow is at rest, which result follows from the assumption that time is composed of moments . … He says that if everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always in a now, the flying arrow is therefore motionless. (!)
– Aristotle Physics, 239b.30

Zeno abolishes motion, saying “What is in motion moves neither in the place it is, nor in one in which it is not”.
– Diogenes Laertius Lives of Famous Philosophers, ix.72

Richard Dunn
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