150 x 100 cm,
Acrylics, lacquer and ink on deep edged canvas
This piece is all about the struggles of creativity and survival, so I invited a number of immortal characters to a table in a library, put a stegosaurus and a sand clock next to it and waited for things to evolve. Bernhard Riemann, the mathematician who provided the maths for Einstein, Carl Sagan and Johannes Keppler are debating the nature of time, behind them Ben Franklin nearly gets his hand blown off in a lightning storm. You will also find Ada Lovelace who probably was the first person to recognise the full potential of algorithms and computers. Another hero of mine is courageous Amelia Earhardt the pilot, who sits between an angry preacher and Archimedes whose circles are about to be disturbed by an ignorant Roman soldier. Sometimes scientific debates get ugly, so I painted two young gentlemen having a fist fight. There is another struggle, that between man and nature, so I created a tug of war between us humans and a Hadron collider. Can you find the caveman who feels superior to a Trilobite? This amazing creature and his family (I mean the Trilobite) managed to survive for some 300 million years. We humans are nowhere near this remarkable success. Hey wait, there is also a group of kids sitting next to each other, their noses in books. I am not sure what they are reading, but I bet they will come up with some impressive ideas, if we let them.
