A friend recently twittered me, “Has technology progressed to the point that I can live out the remainder of my life without face to face contact?” I told him he still needed to get his car emissions tested in person.
But is does raise the question, are we heading for Isaac Asimov’s dystopia, Solaria?
I dunno, but I recently learned a new slang term, e-lationship. It’s a cyber relationship, where friends, lovers and other strangers never meet face-to-face, they just carry on virtually, be it via FaceBook, Twitter, IM-ing, chat or what have you. For years people have known that cyber cutie might be a three-hundred pound guy, an 84-year-old grandma, or a teenie bopper looking for a thrill. But there is the whole other level I had not considered and that is people who really do not want to meet in person, but who feel fulfilled with a harem of cyber-mates. e-lation, it’s a great punny in my opinion.
e-lation was a natural follow-on piece for the social media birds. I have place two canaries staring dreamily into each others’ eyes-that alone should give pause for thought-after all you really can’t see the person on the other end of the wire. The background is mottled, suggesting an insubstantial venue. The birds are perched on a swirly, green, heart-shaped contour. One half of the outline is overlaid with ASCII binary which reads e-lation.
I had a great deal of fun letting the acrylic flow in the background of this painting. There was quite a bit of splattering, dripping, flowing and all sorts of uncontrolled activity, which contrasted strongly with painting binary on the heart outline (that took me three tries to find a good layout). I hope you like it.
What do you think of the painting, or cyber relationships, or …?
Jake
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