‘Collective Manipulation’ is a piece I completed for a contest on Deviant Art called one cat, one clock and one fruit. I chose to create a piece that deals with a few of the multitude of issues going on with mass manipulation in the world today.
Everything in our lives is being tampered with, manipulated and distorted. We are fed lies from the Government. They hold themselves up as our only hope for a better future. Calling their perverse mind control games with us and saying it’s for our own interest and it’s the only way we can come to a ‘collective salvation.’ I illustrated this point with the statue in the left mid-ground, representing what a possible future monument to President Barack Hussein Obama. Obama is pictured forming out of a cloud, almost riding on top of it in his arrogance. A plaque is seen on the structure saying ‘FOUNDER OF COLLECTIVE MANIPULATION.’ This purely Liberal monument would not be fit without showing the President in his glory days smoking his infamous crack.
We are fed foods that are no longer pure and lack the nutritional levels to sustain life. Food is being genetically altered creating unnatural physiology in the animals and having genetic alterations in the people eating them. Represented in the manipulated creatures is an extreme view of genetic manipulation. The idea of a screaming strawberry amused almost like the strawberry was furious with what’s been done with it.
Time clicking away as Dali put it so elegantly, making reference to the past. Time is becoming more of a pressing argument of what we can produce and the major issues needing to be fixed that are tearing us all apart. Whether we choose to accept responsibility for our problems or look away from them, we have no choice to be caught up in the ‘Collective Manipulation’ that is affecting all of us.
