When Mr. F and I first arrived here in the Bay Area, we were without WiFi at home for a few days. We never realize how very reliant we are on technology until we are forced to be without it, am I right?! But certain artists have learned to use these addictive technologies to their advantage. Artist Max Morris creates these amazing digitized paintings that almost seem to still be wet with pigment.
Technology is indeed a powerful tool, but we don’t have to be slaves to it. It helps me feel connected to my loved ones on the other side of the country, to feel an intimacy almost as good as being there, to share in our every day lives together. Through the same kind of sharing, even with strangers, bonds can be created and relationships formed that are as real as if we’d met in person. And we can use technology to find new ways of seeing– a photograph can be zoomed in on, enhanced, so that a detail we may have missed catches our eye. We see things not just as there are, but perhaps as they could be.
To see more of Max Morris‘ work, please visit his website.
All images are via the artist’s website.
