This work is made up of different images that interact with each other at three levels
The first level at the upper portion of the painting has several images that represent some of the forces shaping the world we live in. These forces are coming together like a puzzle but at the same time the world disintegrates and becomes sand in the middle portion, this sand is slipping through the hands of a person (any person). Finally in the lower portion the eyes and the sand become the person. There are several underlying intentions with this painting: we are all maid up of everything, we can't stop what's coming, everything is happening too fast, are we even noticing it!!!...
Media: Digital image over reflective media Dimensions: 46”x64”
This work was inspired on a book by Thomas L. Friedman entitled. "the world is flat" can be interpreted in many ways. Basically what Friedman means by "flat" is "linked." The falling of trade and political barriers and technical advances have made it possible to do business, instantaneously with billions of other people around the world
There are certain pivot points in history that are greater than others because the changes it produced were so sweeping, multifaceted, and hard to predict at the time. “It is not simply about how governments, business, and people communicate. not just about how organizations interact, it is about the emergence of completely new social, political, and business models.
It is about the things that impact some of the deepest, most ingrained aspects of society right down to the nature of the social contract.
If I am right about this, it will be remembered as one of those fundamental changes – like the rise of the nation-state or the Industrial Revolution – each of which, In its day, produced changes in the role of individuals, the role and form of governments, the way we innovated, the way we conducted business, the role of women, the way we fought a war, the way we educated ourselves, the way science and research where conducted, the way religion responded, the way art was expressed...”