RYAN RADER "Kronos ~ Swallowed by Time"

Oil on wood panel

40  x 60  inches

2025

The feeling of being swallowed by time. It engulfs you like a cold, heavy fog, muffling and obscuring the senses. You breathe. One breath. Three breaths. The moment passes, the heaviness dissipates, its potency leaving a memory without agency.

He sits upon the throne of time, the primordial Lord Kronos, consuming all cycles, swallowing all the pieces of human effort, emotion, and ambition. He devours all. He is the Alpha and the Omega. He is everywhere and nowhere, always and never. Kronos is the Void from which all emerges and where all must go, swallowed by the eternity that leaves only traces of our dreams behind for the vultures of tomorrow.

Nothing escapes him. This temporal monstrosity sees the eternal, cradling fragile human sight above the vastness of the Abyss while the grains of our short lives pour through the cosmic hourglass of his being. We are his children, blessed and cursed by the slivers of his grace.

Artist Bio

Ryan Rader

Born in Stratford On, 1982. Ryan began drawing at an early age, with a strong imagination he was a quiet kid, and very introverted. This was the beginning of a lifelong fascination with his inner worlds of the imaginary. Eventually leaving Stratford to study art in Toronto, with a focus on traditional drawing and painting. He developed early work there after, inspired by human anatomy, surrealism and renaissance art. In 2013 he attended Sheridan, focusing on technical illustration and animation, this allowed him to get commercial work. Ryan began painting again in 2018 with Dance Macabre, he grew fascinated with darkness, and began to explore darker themes, obsessively. His inspiration is drawn from the esoteric, occult, magickal beliefs, primordial gods and ancient spirits.

There is beauty in darkness, we can learn much by listening to our daemons.