the notion ‘humans are a destructive virus’, is founded in religion. Because it is the religious mind that is re-shaped by the quest of good triumphing over evil. Even the notion that evil is somehow good, and the hankering after communal/tribal identification around the matter, also roots in religion. Either way, religion is the obsession with domination.( the exercise of power or influence over someone or something, or the state of being so controlled.) Investigation into human nature, not meaning the ‘idea’ of human nature, but the ‘actual’ of it, dismantles the above notion and leaves the playing field wide open, so wide open that no ego idea can find a point that embodies emptiness. The tail chase of ego mind scrambles in all directions, desperate to find some identity to fulfil the aching emptiness that assumes viral proportions and is projected as the human as virus.
title: man with a big speaker
acrylic on magazine print
Ade Kipades (2017)