Impermanence / Monumentality

02/20/22

So I know I talk a lot of shit about what we’ve done for the environment because mother earth has given us so much over the years, the least we can do is ensure her survival a little while longer. But I feel like it’s worth noting that we’ve given mother earth quite a bit too. Without life, the earth would be nothing but a giant rock floating through the abyss, like a plastic bottle swimming through the ocean. As much as we need water to survive, water needs us as well. I’m no scientist so bear with me,  I do know (or so I’ve been told) that if there was no life on earth the radiation from the sun would eventually turn all water into carbon dioxide which would make the earth nothing but a frozen desert. The only reason the earth is so special in the first place is that it has so much water which made it possible for life to grow. But, if life never grew to soak up the sun’s energy there would be no water. So, in a theoretical world where there was no life on earth, but aliens flying all over the solar system, they probably wouldn’t even bat an eye at earth, the same way we wouldn’t if we see a plastic bottle floating off in the distance of the ocean. This means to me at the very least, our being puts the message in the bottle, if you catch my drift. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRL4uIVzVWI

This massive 40-inch by 28-inch digital painting is a remix of probably my favorite photograph of all time:

Westernmost Colossus of the Temple of Re Abu Simbel

Maxime Du Camp

Also, an ode to one of my favorite albums of the past few years. Definitely not for everyone, but if your into that experimental wave like myself, I highly suggest. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqgJcRVGcs&t=1386s

Specs:

Original Sizing: 40 in. by 28 in.

Acrylic on tablet