I am Am I? Gouache and watercolour on paper 30 x 42 cm 2015
This new painting [above] follows on from some other recent paintings where I have incorporated binary code.
In I am Am I? I have repeated binary code 'instructing' the words I am, I AM, Am I?.
These 'instructed' words exist outside some kind of portal which maybe a destination or possibly it's a place of departure...a place already left behind? Yet, you can still see, although faintly, the markings of this place under the dark blue. Maybe the blue is a sheath that co-exists in parallel with what seems to be a more colourful world beyond? Maybe this sheath is another kind of 'habitat', one where downloaded minds, in a posthuman future, might 'exist'. This sheath could be some kind of a sophisticated superconductor, holding everything together? The small trees, my interpretations of the age-old transcultural/religious symbol of the tree-of-life, are reminders of human embodied existence. I have placed them alongside the binary code to indicate that they are also 'code'. In a posthuman future the tree symbol may embed a 'code' that simulates human feelings, emotions, desires and more?
If minds are downloaded for an 'existence' in a posthuman future surely questions about I would be significant...but then again maybe not...hence the ????
So...these downloaded minds may have 'left' the world glimpsed through the portal in the middle of the painting. Maybe it was the only way to escape some kind of apocalyptic situation that threatened the extinction of humanity and the annihilation of Earth?
The place seen through the portal may be the past, or possibly the future.
What do you think?
As you can tell, I am having fun with these new paintings.
And, yes...this is another painting that I would call a cosmic landscapes!
Other recent posts and paintings are:
Cheers,
Kathryn
www.kathrynbrimblecombe-fox.com
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