In The Beginning

2023

neon, plastic, metal

various

Then God said
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel in Rome with a fresco, the center of which depicts the creation of man; God brings Adam to life. Now that, after the Fall, man himself had to distinguish good from evil, we have now arrived another a new intersection. We are about to create a new creator ourselves, through artificial intelligence and self-learning computing power.

Then AI said
What the plans and ethical positions of this new creator are, is the question. Hence, in the well-known Genesis-1 text: Then God said: let us make man in our image, after our likeness, I have reversed and modified some words to expess this question. With the major effect to get the meaning accross that it is man who now has acquired control over the faculty of thought

THEN AI SAID: LET MAN MAKE US IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS

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Lamb of God / Self-Portrait 50, after Van Eyck

2024
epoxy, metal, felt, cotton thread
145 x 70 x 155

Lamb of God / Self-Portrait 52, after Zubarán

2024
epoxy, felt, cotton thread
145 x 70 x 155

Should I Stay or Should I Go / Self-portrait 46

2015
video
various

Carved Time – Series of Contemporary Prayer Nuts

2025
boxwood
various