Die Entstellte (The Blemished)

ca. 170 x 170 cm / oil on canvas

The problem of the modern human is his materiality. The fact, that we are physical creatures is insufferable for the modern man. We are touchable, smellable, present. Our materiality makes us slow going, avoids omnipresence. Apparently, digital social network sites seem to bring the solution. It makes us favoured people, gives us hundreds of so called friends, and enables us to be all over the world at once. Apparently.

In fact, it´s a dream world, which creates real desires, and dependencies.

Human has to accept his physical presence, his evolution from nature, as one day the freedom that digitalism seems to be able to offer us will be the acid, that dissolves us in our dependency.

Frank Schirrmacher writes in his book "payback" (translated by me from german into english):

"We are being eaten by the fear to miss out on something, and by the force to consume every information. We will lose our independent thinking, as we don´t know what´s important, and what isn´t. Furthermore we will subdue ourselves under the dictatorship of the machines. THe thinking exceeds from the inner, and moves onto digital platforms.

The feeling, that life is predetermined mathematically, and nothing changes destiny is one of the effects of overflow of information."