The War On Humanity: Your Cell Phone Is The Breach

A Photo Essay: On doom scrolling through life...

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Hello my friends, I trust this message finds you well.

It has been a really fruitful time for me, that has had me both facing difficulty and receiving blessings in equal measure. Alas, I have gone through a period that has reinvigorated my spirit with the creative impulse to experiment, explore new horizons and alchemize different ways of transmitting something useful to the world.

Lately I have been feeling the pull to go deeper into ‘art’ of all kinds. Especially more physical art - painting, crafting, but also, yes, digital art. Check out this new oracle card I made recently for my upcoming deck ‘The Archetypal Ancestors’.

The ‘Art’ card from the ‘The Liberated One Suit’, of the ‘Lake’ element.

Art hums in our Ancestral bones. With AI running rampant and saturating the the digital sphere with formulaic imitations of art, and vacuous oceans of nothing soulful, I feel that ‘human art’ is one of the last few bastions of resistance to the soullessness of ‘the machine’.

However you can engage with art made by humans, I encourage you too. Watch it, observe it, listen to it, make it, craft it, dance it, eat it, move it…whatever. Make art, and as my teacher Fabeku Fatunmise would say: Make Marks.

With that said, I am feeling called to try something new. Which if you know me, is nothing new…kind of a paradox, I know.

I am going to be offering this list ‘photo essays’ for a time.

They may remain long term, or not, unsure. But as of late, the ‘power of images’ has been burning deep inside me, and it’s where the creative current is going.

Photo essays are a continuous stream, of you guessed it, photos, with minimal text, conveying a core idea (or ideas).

Enjoy!

| The War On Humanity: Your Cell Phone Is The Breach |

‘Breach’ - A term from siege warfare. An opening in the defense at the frontline or fortress wall. An entry point into the fray.

In todays’ world, your cellphone is a breach. You see it as access to infinite streams of information…the machine see’s it as access to your consciousness = the point of impact.

"Our Great War's a spiritual war; our Great Depression is our lives." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club

The battle against your humanity…

Against your senses & soft animal body…

Against your consciousness…

The Machine: big tech, big pharma, governments, ads, agendas, debates, trolls, political polarization, influencers, scammers, fake news, real news = dehumanizing and domesticating forces.

Empires on the march + A land grab of the psyche...

Siege weapons + spy craft…

Causalities. The utter devastation of war. Oh, the humanity…

Treasure = beauty that goes unnoticed in the fountain near by…

The shield wall: attention. The universe is your body…

Tactics: Put the phone down & blow on the embers of your soul = forge ahead….

Strategy = form a praxis: practice, move, breathe, sweat, laugh, feel, meditate, make art, have sex, be in nature, eye contact. The machines retreat when the soul burns bright. Stack one effort on top of the other.