More of my paintings...

'Eight Minutes of Nano-Technology' (Below) This is quite an old piece, created with acrylic, emulsion, spraypaint and marker pens. The title comes from the idea of the acceleration of technological development put forward in Daniel Pinchbeck's book, 2012. "The Stone Age lasted many thousands of years, the Bronze Age lasted a few thousand years, the Industrial Age took three hundred years, the Chemical Age or Plastic Age began a little more than a century ago, the Information Age began thirty years ago, the Biotechnology Age geared up in the last decade. By this calculus, it is conceivable that the Nanotechnology Age could last all of eight minutes. At that point, human intelligence might have complete control of the planetary environment, on a cellular and molecular level. This could lead to utopian creativity or dystopian insanity - perhaps both would arrive at the same moment."



'End Level Tentacles' (Below), Emulsion, acrylic, markers and collage. One of my favorite small pieces... Computer print backgrounds created with Photoshop are collaged together and integrated with painted and drawn imagery.



'Noosphere One & Two' (Below), Acrylic and markers. ..Noosphere... Again a bit of text from Daniel Pinchbeck. "...transitioning from the original organic balance of the biosphere, progressing through increasingly artificial, destructive, and destabilizing layers of mechanized civilization that [Argüelles] dubbed the 'technosphere," and finally, after the imminent collapse of our technological support systems , attaining the 'pristine conditions' of the noosphere - a state in which humanity, as telepathic collective, would be directly attuned to the crystalline precision of the Gaian Mind."



You can see all of these pictures and more here: Art work by Chris Menes on Collective-Era