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Cyborg Days 2020 Human Machine Hybrid

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Cyborg Days 2020 Human Machine Hybrid

I began this painting spontaneously without anything really in mind. I just wanted different colors than what I have been using lately. And then this figure started to come through and she had some kind of earphones on. Then I realized that she was a Cyborg! A hybrid between human and machine, or computer, or phone, any kind of the screens that we use every day and that we rely on so heavily. Specially now in this time when we are urged to stay home and to reduce movement and human contact and travelling. So it's the new way of being with a much heavier reliance on machines and the internet. This new way of being human. But there is still the 'human side' that likes and needs nature and relaxation and delights on the simple things that nature offers. So it's a real hybrid between the technical, technological world and the natural world coming together in this new human that we are.

“The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self...“To be in love is to be worldly, to be in connection with significant otherness and signifying ohers, on many scales, in layers of locals and globals, in ramifying webs...machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.” Donna J. Haraway