Rise and Fall of Immortality Print

This large painting has two conflicting sides. The left side shows how mankind step by step acquired the unique qualities of creative intelligence and unpredictable thinking by overcoming his compulsive fears, urges and behaviour patterns determined by congenital instincts. Our distant ancestors must have been aware that this only just discovered spiritual freedom gave them the potential to gain boundless ingenuity and eternal happiness. We seized this in the evolution unprecedented opportunity with both our hands. The development of free observation, free movement, free interaction, free coexistence, free thinking and free will gave us the ability to populate all continents in just a few hundred generations, a unique feat in the history of life on Earth. Mankind acquired immortality by his ability to escape our finite world, as we proved in 1969 by bringing the first men to the moon. The right side shows how our spiritual freedom, so hard wrung from the laws of nature, was taken away from us by laws of culture. free observation was thwarted by written language, free movement by agriculture, free interaction by property, free coexistence by law, free thinking by church, and free will by state. Step by step we lost our ability to conquer new worlds. We traded our immortality for suppression, deception, gratification and addiction. In the centre of the painting glows Mars, the planet that could have been conquered decennia ago, but now again is unreachable far away.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:6 W x 12 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:11.25 W x 17.25 H x 1.2 D in

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