I’ve always loved ancient civilizations and their mythology; I am fascinated by both the history they represent and the distinct aesthetic each different culture carries. I especially enjoyed drawing Egypt-themed pictures as a child:
I like to think I’ve improved since then, and that my work has more substance.
A lot of our culture today is awfully superficial: shopping, action movies, stocks and bonds. But human nature hasn’t changed; we all cling to our comforts and scramble for more with the same dogmatic faith that built the pyramids, that spread empires across the civilized world – a faith that is blind to reason, that builds and consumes, and feeds on its own expansion until growth is impossible and it finally grinds to a devastated halt amid the ashes and refuse of its own dead glory.
(How’s that for melodrama.)
We made our gods, and we worship them in every moment of our waking lives, and we’ve reached the point where we cannot operate without the things they offer us.
Of course, all of this is coming from someone whose art show was done digitally. If that isn’t telling, I don’t know what is.
A lot of our culture today is awfully superficial: shopping, action movies, stocks and bonds. But human nature hasn’t changed; we all cling to our comforts and scramble for more with the same dogmatic faith that built the pyramids, that spread empires across the civilized world – a faith that is blind to reason, that builds and consumes, and feeds on its own expansion until growth is impossible and it finally grinds to a devastated halt amid the ashes and refuse of its own dead glory.
(How’s that for melodrama.)
We made our gods, and we worship them in every moment of our waking lives, and we’ve reached the point where we cannot operate without the things they offer us.
Of course, all of this is coming from someone whose art show was done digitally. If that isn’t telling, I don’t know what is.
All images © Antonia Alksnis