WHO Futures Art Exhibition

Future vision of Technology

Artist Statement: My work is rooted in an environmental consciousness that derives from my concern for the Earth's rapidly declining health. I use it to highlight the misuse and abuse that we inflict on the natural world. My forms are influenced by domestic and industrial objects that I experience in my daily life that are indicative of eco-friendly tools and warning symbols. I marry my earthen objects with industrial surplus. The mixed media speaks to the complex relationship that humanity has with nature.

Future vision of Technology

Artist Statement: With the presence and increased prevalence of robots and flying cars, technology will be more disruptive. The marriage of cheaper green energy and more capable mobility will significantly improve individual agency and autonomy. Not to mention the health opportunities connected technologies, such as virtual reality-powered metaverses, could unleash.

Future vision of Technology

Artist Statement: Alone - Distinctive personal style and use of color permeates throughout this work. Use of acrylic paints over black canvas. Alone - the struggle we as a society are still having with the balance of technology versus in person interactions makes for a very lonely environment at times.

Future vision of Technology

Artist Statement: The disembodied voice of PharmaCoreAsia boomed all over the plaza: "We're designing the first neural implant that will let you control a device anywhere you go. Micron-scale threads are inserted into areas of the brain that control movement. Each thread contains many electrodes and connects them to an implant, the Link. The threads on the Link are so fine and flexible that they can't be inserted by the human hand". Am I daydreaming fifty odd so year from now, or is this happening now?

Artist Statement: My art, whether photography or painting, aims to establish an emotional connection. I explore my feelings about topics and what they mean to me. How I wish to represent them in color, style, technique and a form that present my meaning . Over the years as I mature so does my art and my vision. When I take photographs of subjects I don't only see a person, I see a way to express feeling. I interact with my subjects on a very personal level and work to pull emotions from them utilizing a variety o

Artist Statement: Every year, humans produce 300 million tonnes of plastic waste, including 11 million tonnes that eventually wind up in the ocean. Ninety-nine per cent of plastic is the product of chemicals derived from dirty, non-renewable sources. Most of it never really disappears. Instead, it becomes smaller, with particles being swallowed by fish or farm animals and eventually consumed by humans in their food and tap water.

Artist Statement: The series Overlook examines the entropy of visual culture and the discord of perception. It deconstructs how our culture consumes imagery by masking iconography within layers of line, shape, color and rhythm. Overlook is a critique of a willingness to adapt to new sensibilities in observation. Its intention is to provoke the viewer to seek out what is familiar yet veiled by dissonance, and invites the viewer to engage with misleading, irrelevant, fragmented and superficial information.

Artist Statement: this mixed media of a hand drawn image of a tattoed hand and sun rays were digitized that includes a table of comparison of increased world population and carbon atmosphere as the wilderness declines and initial numbers as Covid-19 deaths rise during the 1st year of the pandemic. How can humanity survive? To improve technologies that would help humans, it requires leaders with wisdom to continue.