Michael Waraksa

Michael Waraksa (Wisconsin, USA)

Lid, 2020

digital collage

22.8 x 15.5 inches

In this piece, I am attempting to visualize the bridging of the natural world with the industrial/technological world that humans have created over the past century. Although the rapid advancement of post-industrial revolution technology is partly (if not mostly) to blame for our current environmental problems, technology will also probably be part of the solution if we are able to eventually mitigate and reverse the damage done to the planet. I am also constantly reminded that our most complex technology is basically cobbled together by us from earthly materials and is essentially not separate from nature. Unfortunately, however, we are now living with the disastrous consequences of us blindly combining and overusing many of these materials.