Size - 300 x 185 cm
Roots is a look at the role superstition, oppression and exploitation played in the genesis of our civilization, and how the dominance of a certain fragment of humanity over others came to be. White male privilege has a geopolitical and cultural background, and a clearer understanding about the beginning of it all may help us to overcome this historic bias and bring us closer to a more just outcome for western civilization.
Bestiary is a study about the correlation between human nature and the human intellect. While the human intellect soars to apotheotic heights, human nature seems to be stuck backwards thousands of years. This disparate rhythm has caused our living environment to evolve at a pace that exceeded the capacity in our nature to adapt our behavior to live well-adjusted lives in it, causing us to live in a world built by state-of-the-art technology and governed by the reflexes of people in the neolithic.
Humanity has reached a crossroad, we must take a long hard look at how we got to where we are so we can take the right path moving forward. Bestiary is a reflection on the morphology of our civilization. Its fundaments, its drives and aspirations and the results of its endeavors. Seeing as how the environmental crisis humanity is faced with was brought on by the west’s process of development, the responsibility to set the wheels in motion to find a way out of the predicament falls on our shoulders. This series of works is an analysis of various facets of western Civilization: its fundaments, its religion, its wars, its agriculture and labor, its science and technology, its culture and leisure, and its legacy.
© Daniel Botelho
