digital angel
If you pray faithfully every day at prime time to digital angel you will be blessed with a brand new LCD TV and cable TV subscription.
Digital Angel is a combination of several concepts. Firstly it reflects a secular obsession of men to shift their fate and responsibility for their own destiny to external forces - internally in a form of a prayer, or externally in form of amulets, totems or fetishes. Although largely associated with primitive and pagan cultures the same can be observed in Christianity in form of relics and objects of worship (those most evident being the cross and perhaps the Shroud of Turin). At the same time it appeals to the contemporary eye by its visual and entertaining properties. It can serve as a decent decoration of a modern apartment and after dark change into an intimate object of one's worship at the turn of handle. It will meet high standards for modern, greedy, consumption and aggression based lifestyle yet still perfectly comply with the superficial need for holiness.
This sculpture is also a small scale experiment how heart rules over mind and over matter. The core of the sculpture is constructed only from objects found in the environment. In this particular case garbage washed ashore the ocean on one of the south Cork beaches. It is an evidence that whether before or after a particular action following an internal impulse every environment provides potential for rearranging. The underlying motivation of such rearranging determines how will it affect life in its vicinity. If the underlying motivation is negative like fear, anger and destruction in general, manifesting in violence and perhaps war at its extreme, it will (albeit subtly and in long term) affect life in its surroundings in a negative way - resulting in disintegration of matter, life. If the motives are of positive nature like openness, receptiveness, tenderness, thus creation it will affect life in its surroundings positively - resulting in integration of matter or life.
An Octopus - Prisoner, Governor’s Office, Staircase
Art work inspired by 2nd World War and set on background of Cork City Jail
According to some, the history repeats
If you deny people education (real education leading to personal wisdom), knowledge and access to information you create a crowd of obedient slaves. You can then keep them in check by disseminating semi-truths, cheap entertainment and nurturing their worst human traits to turn them against each other. That takes care of some and achieves self-regulated control system. Those rebellious or insufficient to cope with such system can then be removed to institutions like jail or asylum to set example to the rest of the population and to motivate them through fear to comply. In order to do that, you have to have established an efficient judicial and legal system. Such system, run by those fully educated and with access to all the information can ensure power will never leave the hands of the mighty and those born into blindness about their environment, reality, never escape their servitude. More so, they will desire to please their masters in return of a reward of some sort. It can be social status, money or simply authority over others. These people resemble tentacles of an octopus - mafia; they are always replaceable and expendable. The octopus becomes (although it has no substance of its own) the omnipresent, omnipowerful yet invisible entity that lives in peoples’ heads. The system is the priority – not the human being. Population is a mere stock that can be bought and sold like any other common goods. Human life has no value and human potential is suppressed to a level of an animal fighting for a survival. In such circumstances human life is not lived but endured.
When Warsaw ghetto was established, the Nazis did not put in charge one of their own but rather a Polish Jew. He became overnight the master over life and death and did use his power to the full extent. He took bribes from fellow Jews for exclusion from the transports, allocation of extra food rations. His inferiors raped and looted the abandoned houses and apartments. He was sent to concentration camp and gassed in one of the last transports leaving Warsaw. He was the tentacle of a system that rewarded him and subsequently – when he was no longer needed – discarded him.
HUEMEN MIRROR | 2011 | project dedicated to the power of search engine
