"Time For Livin'", acrylic, oil stick, pigment on paper.

"Time For Livin'" is the lead single from Sly and the Family Stone's seventh studio album, Small Talk, released in 1974. "Time For Livin'" explodes like a cry of vital urgency.

The tension between chaos and order, funk as structure:

My work reproduces the structural tension of Sly Stone's funk: a chaotic, gestural, impulsive left side—like the syncopated groove, the overlapping vocal layers, the rhythmic urgency—against a geometric, assertive, almost architectural right side. Sly Stone has always been this: raw energy contained within a highly structured musical form.

The black line that cuts through the two worlds of the composition is, in this interpretation, the bass line of the track, the element that provides both structure and urgency, that connects expressive chaos to formal order. Without it, the two halves would not belong to the same work.

Like Sly Stone in 1974, I offer a work on the verge of overflowing, yet restrained. A work that cries out the urgency of life in a form that does not yield. Time For Livin': neither yesterday nor tomorrow. Now.