Every atom of water in our bodies was created by the Big Bang along with heavier elements from the heart of our stars. The constituents of our body and mind are immortal, moving through our environment and assembly into one life form after another, an essence of reincarnation. Particles are neither created nor destroyed, and perhaps there comes a time when all elements reach a new form of energy immortality. We are creatures of comfort, fearing changes, asking the whys, but that is due to our present state of mind, a mechanism of survival of our species to possess those qualities. We are all one in a process, one world, only separated by a small speck of time. It’s the greatest gift, to be apart and to be together, and to exist in this moment in time against all odds of probability.
(13” x 20”, graphite and charcoal) Hypatia (c.370-415 AD) was a great female scholar known as the first woman mathematician, an astronomer, and a philosopher. In a world dominated by men, she was a free thinker dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom in a pivotal moment in time of the great city of Alexandria. Her life came to an end when she was brutally murdered by a group of zealous monks that saw her standing in society as a threat. Her dismembered body were scattered around the city and burned.
Inspired by her strength, wisdom, and dedication to knowledge and science, I wanted to depict a portrait of Hypatia as a proud heroine, a vivid portrait of an exceptional woman with a tragic hint in her face as she sternly glazes beyond the norm of her time. Behind her, an astrolabe credited as her invention, symbolizes the age of science and discovery. She is ancient and modern, holding archetypal value that survives in the contemporary age, and a bearer of universal human values, of education and science, and of the global struggle of women’s equality.
(13” x 19″, graphite and charcoal on paper) An artificial intelligence conquest must encompass the integration of total knowledge through interfacing with the emotional soul, which unfolds according to a systematic neural invasion. Through the unnatural navigation of the human mind, it will unavoidably fail, lacking the tears and deep connection to the natural world that only can arise organically from the fine tuning of countless human events and possibilities.
