TIC-TIME

“Tic-Time” By Nick Ringelstetter

If you’ve ever wondered what the inside of Nick Ringelstetter’s brain looks like, this piece can give you the answer. “Tic Time” is the personal representation of the way Nick see’s his own mind when he dives into its depths to pull up the creativity we get to enjoy in his work.

Nick is what you might typically call a ‘left-brain’ thinker despite his obvious artistic talents, and that is reflected in the intricate shapes and patterns of this piece. The train chugging along throughout the loops of tracks is unlike the locomotives we’re used to, but Nick believes that we’ll see a change in the way that we power these engines in the near future and this is how he imagines they will look.

This piece doesn’t sell often, but when it does there seems to be a common denominator in the people that buy it. This painting seems to attract people who work in science or engineering, which is probably due to the vaguely mechanical complexity of the piece. It’s rare that the younger generation takes interest in this particular painting, but when someone comes into one of Nick’s booth and picks this one out of all of the other works of art, it gives Nick a little bit of hope for the world. He does his best to make a conversation with that person because he believes it says something about the interworking’s of their minds. After all, if you’re attracted to the inside of another person’s head the chances are high that you’ll have some common ground.