Mourning Light

Acrylic and mixed media (molding paste, stones, and wood) on gesso panel, 30" x 36"

Technology is well on its way to colonizing human consciousness. A look at how the automobile conquered the world in under a century will ‘drive home’ the impact of technology. Cars have benefits but also costs: environmental, social, cultural, and personal. Cars gave us air pollution, noise pollution, gridlock, and shopping malls, turning paradise into a parking lot. The fuel that is their life-blood fuels war. We foolishly imagine that we are its master while we must serve the network necessary to make such machines work. As A.I. continues to proliferate, we may find ourselves serving the system that supports them, until we end up serving the machines themselves. As ‘Big Tech’ engages and entraps us with its sticky tendrils - promoting social isolation, sedentary lifestyles, and more easily distracted/manipulated minds - humanity will eventually be assimilated into mere ‘nodes’ entangled within endless Cyber Networks. ‘Smart’ devices indeed . . .