9/25/2017

 

Anthropocene (2017), 18x24 inches, acrylic, custom stencil, hardware, on double panel. Another piece in my text art series (“Hash Art”, as a riff on “Flash Art”), using the MD5 Hash: 26A62357DD22BB74226DB1DF2D71AB68 as the digital “fingerprint” for the following quote by Paul MacCready, also referred to as the “The MacCready Explosion”. The Hash is a semaphore or icon for a possible beginning point of the Anthropocene based on the quote: “Over billions of years on a unique sphere, chance has painted a thin covering of life—complex, improbable, wonderful and fragile. Suddenly, we humans—a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature—have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.”