statement and procrastination

As the Artist Statement is being written, I'm thinking of questions I need to find the answers to (in relation to the writing of an artist statement). How do I blend my core values and issues into a piece about who I am and what I do as an artist? Is that what an artist statement is? How is the statement in time: is it about my past art, my present art, both?

I was thinking of time, and of the video game Braid where time is, in a level, represented from left to right. So I drew a forest (tie it in to fairytale somehow) with colors and shadows relating to times of day, in order. It also represents the past, present, and future of a day, where the present is in the middle and midday. I like this drawing, but I only realized after that sunrise and sunset are relatively short periods of the day.

Past, Present, and Future. With weird-looking 2D trees that are at different heights on the page, so they look 3D. And the shadows are interesting.