Fortnight

In Fortnight, Reinike divides fourteen days into fourteen blocks of time—seven monochromatic landscape squares alternating with seven white squares. The landscape represents the concrete; the white space, the abstract. In one of the landscape squares is an arch. Together they suggest the movement from abstract concepts toward practical applications as the unknown future is explored.

Below the alternating blocks, a vast expanse of blue sky and clouds opens the composition into another dimension. A landscape square is partially obscured within the sky, while clouds drift upward into several of the blocks above. The boundaries between the concrete and the abstract begin to dissolve.

Reinike sees the sky and clouds as the limitlessness of time and space. Fourteen days are only drops in the bucket of the age of the universe. Yet time can be divided, marked, and measured in these small increments.

And beyond those measurements lies the question at the heart of the painting: Is this what we call eternity?