Cybernetic Sight (Like Tears In Rain) — 10″x10″ (25cm x 25cm) oil on gallery width panel (2025)
I was in the bathtub, soaking in the steam and the scent of lavender, contemplating my feet, their knobbly-ness,
whether I should paint their nails, when the idea for this painting hit me, pretty much fully formed — I saw a scene
bathed in a neon glow coming in through a rain-spattered window, incandescent light from an unseen lamp, a warm
counterpoint picking up details of the work top littered with computer bits and wires, and an eye. And perhaps more
unsettlingly, a knife, and not a surgical knife or an x-acto or anything vaguely clean or sanitary, but a pocket knife, a
blunt instrument. It had a noir, Blade Runner quality, the blurring of human and machine, but the brutality of the
Terminator.
What prompted this?
I recently had my hearing augmented by earbuds that act a bit like hearing aids but are also blue-tooth enabled,
playing into the bionic/cyborgian potentialities.