Technique: computer board + objects + oil painted images
Dimensions: 22 x 33 x 4,5 cm
Work composed of three computer boards, whose electronic components were rearranged in order to facilitate the inclusion of objects and figurative elements in the composition of the work. The group of boards form a book of three pages. Each page representing a stage of the human development in Earth (Gaia).
The first page (book cover) approaches the prehistory.
In that period, Man, still a hunter and collector, observed the sky with wonder. The inclusion of images and representative elements of that time begins at the left inferior corner of the page where is the silhouette of a prehistoric man's hand, printed in the wall of a cave. The painted images of the Milky Way, solar system and planet earth, are inside of acrylic "mini display windows" and they represent the natural state of the material universe of human being, inviolated until then. An arrow tip and a bean seed represent the sources of feeding of the time.
The second page approaches the period between the Industrial Revolution and the decade of 1980.
The coins represent the financial system; the gun bullets represent the violence and human aggressiveness. The image of a clock of Hiroshima (paralyzed in the exact moment of the atomic explosion) and of an atomic mushroom represent the capacity of self-destruction that humankind achieved in the 20th century.
The third page approaches the current moment and the tribulations of the contemporary life.
Some painted images show the capacity of analytical observation achieved by the science today, which is able to eliminate virtually the water of the planet Earth in order to study its real and nude form; to observe by satellites the evolution of the ozone hole and the energy of the bottom of the universe. Two images represent the progress of the science and they show the earth photographed by an astronaut in the moon and the image of the moon seen in the limit of the terrestrial atmosphere. The image of the planet viewed from space with the pollution dominating the scene represents the degree of inconsistency that the same science caused to us. In that case, an astronaut's glove serves as analogy with the prehistoric man's hand, in the first page, and it represents a type of universal signature that determines the author of the attitudes showed in the whole book. The glove also has a second meaning which is it to show the forbidden sign for the inconsequencies practiced by the humanity nowadays.
Walter Miranda - September/2007
