I only turned to art following a philosophical awakening, before that I wanted to be a lawyer. Although it’s been less than a year since the awakening, there’s no going back. I tried to write down what I thought in words and it didn’t work so I took to poetry. That snowballed into dancing before writing. Then dancing before painting. Then dancing while playing the saxophone and painting with my feet. All this bloomed uncontrollably in an effort to communicate a philosophy I now have the words for, in my soon-to-be-published book Truth and Other Trash.
This piece, Convergent Evolution, breathes air from my philosophy as do all my pieces. Convergent Evolution is the term biologists give to describe the phenomenon when multiple species adapt similarly; like how both bats and birds have wings. We don’t have wings, but we like to imagine angels that live in heaven, the ultimate success. Ultimately, that cultural fantasy only exists because of the underlying constant facts, humanity exists to survive and reproduce to feed off the planet and the sun. Notice the couple, converged into the angel. Notice the female dress converged into a penis. Notice the unsettled expression on the angel; a spermy mouth. Notice the halo is either the sun or an egg, just a biological fact. Morality is relative. Gender is a social construct, as is everything else. Perception is reality. ;)