marker on found object. Soon after his wife’s death in 1969 Armstrong went to work as a foreman in a local box factory and supplemented his earnings there by constructing benches, tables and cupboards. Three years later he had a transforming vision in which an angel appeared before him proclaiming God’s message that ‘Our time has gone to waste… judgment day will come and what hour only He [God] knows.’After this experience Armstrong became reclusive and preoccupied with time, the Book of Revelation and the making of elaborate calendars designed to predict the exact time and date of the Day of Judgment. These would transform, nourish, define and testify to his faith and pointed out the direction an Individual’s personal and spiritual lives should take. Armstrong produced over 1,500 works, creating them in series and refining his formats. The calendars consist of complex pathways and grids drawn in black, red and blue permanent marker and encircling his constructions. Armstrong called this effect ‘taping with time’. This linear wrapping or winding connects him to Afrocentric traditions. The process is meditative and illuminating, and in the process he apparently left his everyday state of mind, transforming his structures into spiritually charged icons. (source from Webb Gallery) 3.5"W X 10.5"H

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