#timcantor

I discovered Tim Cantor’s gallery while walking through San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter about a year ago. I was familiar with his work for Imagine Dragon’s album art in 2015 for Smoke + Mirrors, but only after having studied the details of his art in person did I truly fall in love with his work.

His surrealist content combined with his realistic technique of painting is absolutely fascinating. The detail and hidden messaging behind his work leaves you wanting more. 

I recently purchased his book Tim Cantor: Paintings and Writings. It’s a biography paired with several of his pieces and the writings that accompany each work. I revisit the pages of this book often when looking for inspiration of my own.

“The Hollows” painting and writing by Tim Cantor

In the hollows and high trees of misery’s mind 

I crave my answers to be written refined 

Yet the fever of this need 

Keeps feelings confined

 And taints my eyes 

Desperately blind 

Coupled with this 

The dyes of my questions are muddy like mist 

I wonder what it is 

That I think I have missed 

Here I stand lost 

Reasons unknown as to why I exist 

Answers & Questions 

I wish I could ask 

And wish I could know 

It’s like a syndrome 

Seething to grow 

But before this poison 

Swallows my days with its spidery laces 

I consider the old saying 

That embraces 

The answers will be found 

In the most unlikely of places 

And in my dreams I have seen 

The ghost of myself 

Among more peaceful faces 

Answers & Questions 

I now understand 

Should be widely neglected 

All of the world is inevitably connected 

And everything will make sense