this relationship between humanity and technology and exploring it through visual art has been the most demanding trial of my life. I have learned so much, yet I feel as though I have only begun to understand the complexity of this relationship. I plan to continue my research out of graduate school, and expand upon the ideas first broached here. I want to do works focusing upon visualizing the immaterial digital world and to represent what it is that makes it so alluring to human beings of modern times. I want to explore the vivid overlap between biological and technological processes on an intimate scale in a series of smaller paintings. I want to experiment more with and create more imagery with overlapping planes of salvaged detail. I want to do a large series of detailed drawings depicting the present day realities in our relationship with technology. There are other ideas that would begin with the phrase want for “I to” how my art will proceed after this thesis, but I believe the point has been made. This is not the ending of an idea but the of one, an exploration I will be excited beginning to pursue long after the completion of this work. To the questions I posed at the beginning of this thesis however, I have these Do we as a species presently possess the foresight to develop this relationship into the future with wisdom? Yes, we do. Were this not the case we would not be able to foresee the dangers of misusing this relationship, and my paintings would not exist. Are we losing our ability to empathize by abandoning the natural world in favor of integrating the digital world we have created? In many ways, yes, we are. However, our species is still in its infancy of this abandonment, and with awareness of where it might go, to this path may falter. Does the near-obsessive and oft-times reckless manner in which we as a species pursue the advancement of this world mean the end of humanity as
this relationship between humanity and technology and exploring it through visual art has been the most demanding trial of my life. I have learned so much, yet I feel as though I have only begun to understand the complexity of this relationship. I plan to continue my research out of graduate school, and expand upon the ideas first broached here. I want to do works focusing upon visualizing the immaterial digital world and to represent what it is that makes it so alluring to human beings of modern times. I want to explore the vivid overlap between biological and technological processes on an intimate scale in a series of smaller paintings. I want to experiment more with and create more imagery with overlapping planes of salvaged detail. I want to do a large series of detailed drawings depicting the present day realities in our relationship with technology. There are other ideas that would begin with the phrase “I want to” for how my art will proceed after this thesis, but I believe the point has been made. This is not the ending of an idea but the beginning of one, an exploration I will be excited to pursue long after the completion of this work. To the questions I posed at the beginning of this thesis however, I have these Do we as a species presently possess the foresight to develop this relationship into the future with wisdom? Yes, we do. Were this not the case we would not be able to foresee the dangers of misusing this relationship, and my paintings would not exist. Are we losing our ability to empathize by abandoning the natural world in favor of integrating the digital world we have created? In many ways, yes, we are. However, our species is still in its infancy of this abandonment, and with awareness of where it might go, to this path may falter. Does the near-obsessive and oft-times reckless manner in which we as a species pursue the advancement of this world mean the end of humanity as