After the Crash (version A1)

After the Crash (version A1)

I incorporated a road in this drawing because I want to start making these series look more like technologically advanced cities in a child-like cubist style of my own. Many sources have inspired me up to this point, including: Paul Klee, Maria Elena Vieira da Silva, Piet Mondrian, Vincent Van Gogh, Francis Picabia, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Byzantine mosaic art, Islamic art and architecture, and so many more. 

These series are more of a balancing act between the decomposing forces of nature, and the attempt of mankind to eternalize his image and thoughts upon the vast oases of the universe, for which he practically knows almost nothing, even unto this point in humankind's evolution. I suppose it's an elaborate, round-about way of giving a visual catalog of the folly of man. This process is still fascinating to me. You can imagine yourself walking through all the constructs of man as you see through the fallacy of their permanence. In other words, enjoy everything for the experience, but don't hang on to anything, because nothing in the physical world lasts forever.  

It's a process that people have been interested in since they became self aware beings experiencing life inside of the biological unit of the human model. This series, and this image, bring to the viewer's awareness both the fleeting qualities of life, as well as all that seems to last forever. I give the viewer the suggestion, also, that an immaterial mind is what organizes, and re-organizes everything in physical nature. So, in "the end", even the mechanical, scientific, and utilitarian structures of modern humans undergo an organic process of birth, change, deterioration, and death... and then re-birth.

--eVan, July 1st, 2013