Andrae Green, Ode to Meta, 2024, Alumium chalk and concrete on canvas, 167.6 x 132.1 cm. (66 x 52 in). Photo courtesy the artist
There’s something about diving. The weightlessness, perhaps the fall, but not just a fall, more of a casting off, a liberation, an attempt at flight without wings.
And in that leap, a sense of losing the constraints of form. We are no longer rooted to the ground, or our physical selves. We jump off a solid object, out into thin air before crashing into water below, but above all we jump out of ourselves.
Way back, in our youth, we dove in brazen challenges, repeating irrepressible attempts to bend the laws of the universe to our will. Later, as the lights dim, we dive to remember who it was that we were, and to catch a glimpse of ourselves in that fleeting, weightless moment.
Plainly put, when we dive, we dive in time.
Through November 8, 2025
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As well as writing about art in the American continents, Jonathan Bonfiglio covers Latin America for The Times in London and regularly broadcasts for the likes of LBC (UK), ABC (Australia) and TalkRadio (UK). His new podcast “Less Time Than Ideas – Art Across the Americas” is available across streaming platforms.
September 29, 2025
