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The Time Trauma
![The Time Trauma](../../../../images/art/delprete/the-master-of-illusions/158.jpg)
Symbolic of the four seasons, four carnivorous fishes are wrapped around a track
for hurdlers. A giant time snail darts its tongue in and out, threatening the
hounded hurdlers. However, the longer they run, the older they get; paradoxically
their sense of time is getting more compressed. It looks as if these carnivorous fish
eating each other up were shortened and accelerated. The only element at rest is a towel hanging
in the picture, which establishes the connection between the virtual world in the
picture and the real world in the frame.