"Just as classical art was inspired by nature, so we - the offspring of the technological evolution - cannot ignore the inspiration that comes to us from the world of the technology we have created".
Quote by Paolo Targetti, from the book Light art, published 2005.
Electricity and technology are two of the biggest controlling powers on the planet with their own laws, symbols, theories, systems and rules. We live by them. Without them the world would come to a standstill overnight.
If electricity could think, it would rule us in an instance.
We are slaves to this power because we are obsessed with technology.
No power, No technology!
This got me thinking of ways to express this idea and what the ultimate symbol of power for most people in the world actually is.
I created this piece after a lot of thinking and experimentation. It brings together all the ideas I had when working on my accumulation/dispersion project in our print classes but in a more controlled, finished way. The last piece was too messy and didn't get across what I was trying to show whereas this piece has been thought through and developed into a finished installation combining drawing, sculpture and the print, which I see as the whole accumulation, built and marked on the wall.
Gone are the days when we had bibles on our bedside tables.
Now we have I-Pads and Facebook....
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