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For Sale › Descent of Enlightenment

Descent of Enlightenment

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2024
Mixed Media
30 × 40 inches
The Visionary Series

This work stages the arrival of knowledge as a contested event. An astronaut descends from a radiant sun in the posture of sacred visitation, while crows actively pursue a peace dove across the sky: enlightenment harassed before it can settle. An owl, symbol of deep and penetrating wisdom, observes from above without intervening. UFOs and cryptocurrency share the canvas as parallel systems, both contested, both operating outside institutional authority, both suggesting the visible order conceals a more complex reality. The Egyptian pyramids ground the scene in the long history of civilizations that asked the same questions. Enlightenment does not descend into a welcoming world. It descends into this one.

2024
Mixed Media
30 × 40 inches
The Visionary Series

This work stages the arrival of knowledge as a contested event. An astronaut descends from a radiant sun in the posture of sacred visitation, while crows actively pursue a peace dove across the sky: enlightenment harassed before it can settle. An owl, symbol of deep and penetrating wisdom, observes from above without intervening. UFOs and cryptocurrency share the canvas as parallel systems, both contested, both operating outside institutional authority, both suggesting the visible order conceals a more complex reality. The Egyptian pyramids ground the scene in the long history of civilizations that asked the same questions. Enlightenment does not descend into a welcoming world. It descends into this one.

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