Broken Idols
Digital Graphics, Technological, Sacred / Mythological, Political / Social, Fantasy / Visionary, Computer graphics, 48x32x2cm
Decalogue Commandment Number Four:
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."
Moses' jealous, analytic, Lord, God, would inadvertently make a massive impact on art, idolatry and the regard of women for millenia to come.
The invention of writing, would consequently obliterate art and the philosophy to allow artists to create images, and would forever blemish substitution idolatry. Commandment number four would eventually pummel the Goddess worshiping cultures, redefine the role of a woman, from a holy life-creating relic, to a life sentence of marital obedience. It's no surprise the invention of the first book, would project, sociologically, the shortcomings of it's writer.
In this painting, In his fathers shop, Abraham** destroys all but one of his own father's artfully crafted Idols. He serves to win the favor of Yahweh, God of the new invention, writing, and its left-minded, phonetic, cognitive, alien abilities, assured to change the world, indefinitely.
The figure in the foreground, represents another parallel, alien, but less pragmatic, technological intervention, the Internet and its Millennial Generation.
Beholden to unlimited data, our generation drives towards a new and unknown culture. Leaving behind all preexisting limitations on information, visions, writing, borrowed, spliced, and fused, in an unlimited and ever evolving presentation. For humanity, introverted personalities can now transcend the barriers of space and time, developing a new and improved, more informed, global mentality, in a universe where (parallel to the Biblical narrative) jealousy, and tyrannical authority is exposed globally, and projected through a new form of expression.
**Part of a Series of work on Mormon Founder Joseph Smith's fungal visions of Native American nomadic descendants of Ancient Israelite Tribes. Parenthetical Abraham, in this depiction, is represented by a Native American Hopi Dancer.
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."
Moses' jealous, analytic, Lord, God, would inadvertently make a massive impact on art, idolatry and the regard of women for millenia to come.
The invention of writing, would consequently obliterate art and the philosophy to allow artists to create images, and would forever blemish substitution idolatry. Commandment number four would eventually pummel the Goddess worshiping cultures, redefine the role of a woman, from a holy life-creating relic, to a life sentence of marital obedience. It's no surprise the invention of the first book, would project, sociologically, the shortcomings of it's writer.
In this painting, In his fathers shop, Abraham** destroys all but one of his own father's artfully crafted Idols. He serves to win the favor of Yahweh, God of the new invention, writing, and its left-minded, phonetic, cognitive, alien abilities, assured to change the world, indefinitely.
The figure in the foreground, represents another parallel, alien, but less pragmatic, technological intervention, the Internet and its Millennial Generation.
Beholden to unlimited data, our generation drives towards a new and unknown culture. Leaving behind all preexisting limitations on information, visions, writing, borrowed, spliced, and fused, in an unlimited and ever evolving presentation. For humanity, introverted personalities can now transcend the barriers of space and time, developing a new and improved, more informed, global mentality, in a universe where (parallel to the Biblical narrative) jealousy, and tyrannical authority is exposed globally, and projected through a new form of expression.
**Part of a Series of work on Mormon Founder Joseph Smith's fungal visions of Native American nomadic descendants of Ancient Israelite Tribes. Parenthetical Abraham, in this depiction, is represented by a Native American Hopi Dancer.
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