Techno-Futurism
The Melding of Art and Technology
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Dystopian Blues
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I’m not actually sure why, but I have become fixated on this idea of dystopia and what that might mean for my artistic practice. As a result, I’ve started creating artworks that fall into that dystopian box. The first of these artwork series, The Spirit Travelers of the Southwest, is shown here – works that bring to mind fifteenth/sixteenth century artist Hieronymus Bosch and his works of hell on earth.
Although my artworks, by design, don’t go nearly as far a Bosch’s works, they have at their heart, the deformities of the flesh. While most digital artists working with the human form strive to make these human figures as perfect as possible, I have gone in a totally different direction, I’ve embraced the deformities that occur in these works. I don’t try to hide them or fix them. I’m not sure who these artworks will appeal to, but I find them fascinating. I plan on creating more artworks that embrace the culture of dystopia. Hang on for an interesting ride.
Spirit Travelers of the Southwest
The world that humanity knew for thousands of years no longer exists. Starting in 2001, the idea of permanent war began to grip the world in its claws of death. This idea ran unabated until the year 2146 when the final war of the world forced humanity back to the brink of hunter-gatherers. Yes, there were pockets of the modern world still lurking on the edges, but for the most part the world could no longer be called modern. Even a term like post-modern doesn’t seem apropos for the humans who are grinding out their meager existence. So, across the globe humans formed bonds with other humans and these small groups became the new normal for human society. Some settled in what seemed like safe environments and tried their best to eke out a decent existence, while others decided to live a more nomadic lifestyle.
One such group of nomadic humans is known as the Spirit Travelers of the Southwest. These small bands of humans can be found wandering the landscape of what used to be Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, in search of food, shelter, and the connection that comes from people who are linked together by their common suffering. On occasion, these groups gather in large numbers, commiserate with each other for a few days, and then move on to continue their never-ending search for some holy grail that will help them discover a way out of their ongoing misery.
But there is no holy grail, at least not on this planet earth. So, these small bands have had to develop a fierce attitude toward those they consider outsiders. As they learned too often, the outsiders have no interest in playing nice. Even though these bands of travelers are mostly peace loving, they can turn in a second and become like a rattlesnake who’s been disturbed from his hiding place.
The first four artworks currently shown here are of average people who belong to The Spirit Travelers of the Southwest. Each artwork has its own short story to tell.
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Title: Henry – Where is My Mother - 36x36inches - $1850.00
Henry was born into disfunction, as many children were in the dystopic world they unfortunately inhabited. He never knew his father and, even though his mother seemed loving enough, one night on their way to nowhere, she left him on the side of a road 30 miles north of Albuquerque. They had stopped because Henry had to pee, and when he ran out into an empty field, she put the car in drive, and fled the scene never to come back. He was eight, it was night, and he was shaking in terror at the thought of what would become of him.
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Title: Isabella – Has a Few Secrets - 36x36inches - $1850.00
Isabella was thirty-two years old and had a few secrets, well actually, she had many secrets, but the most impressive secret that she possessed was the fact that she was a murderer. Well, that description of her is rather harsh, because what she did was kill her boyfriend, Michelangelo Bellini, who was trying to rape her. She had told him to get lost and that she didn’t want to see him again. He didn’t take her decision well and pushed her down onto the floor of her apartment and during their struggle, she grabbed a knife that was conveniently lying on a nearby table and plunged it into his neck. MB, as she called him, died instantly.
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Title: Margarita – Hoping for Absolution - 36x36inches - $1850.00
Margarita decided to leave her home in ex-Mexico and travel north with two friends to seek their fortunes in the northern territories, formerly known as the United States of America. The Rio Bravo Del Norte was no longer considered a border between the two former countries, and the fencing on the border that existed for many decades had long ago crumbled and fallen into total disrepair. As a consequence, the people flowed back and forth at will. For those older people still around, they understood the irony of the current situation.
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Title: Nicholas – Longing for a Solution - 36x36inches - $1850.00
Nicholas was not a native to the southwest territory of ex-America. In fact he had grown up in the ex-UK near Plymouth in a small town called West Looe, which had become a rather fortified village owing to the fact that there were many roaming gangs. Obviously, the UK was no longer a vibrant country, but a worn-out shell of its former status as a world power. But that could be said for the world at large, it was just worn out.
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