Ecological Evolution of Art
Dr Abe V Rotor
Ecology painting brings nature into our home and community to the delight of our children and folks, converts old and dirty walls into fresh landscapes with the ambiance of a park and the natural world.
Corner section of a 60-ft long wall mural painted by the author
at his residence in Lagro, QC
1. Ecology painting teaches us drawing and painting from memory after close observation without taking photographs, notes or preparatory sketches, as in the case of The Quarry of Monsieur Pascal near Nantere by Jean-Charles Cazin.
2. Ecology painting like On the Farm by Joan Miro' teaches students of simple technology on how to collect rain after in an arid landscape, an on-site and hand-on approach in learning art and its application to life and the environment.
Wall mural showing details depicting unity and harmony of nature.
4. Ecology painting introduces us to Vuillard's painting of a park as a backdrop where students explore the social concepts of parks, embodying a character or characters in the painting from their own perspective.
5. Ecology painting brings us to the world of Winslow Homer, famous for his Breezing Up (old man sailing with kids) and A House in the Bahamas, where he painted and wrote on the simple and beautiful life on this island nation.
6. Ecology painting leads us to experience the impact of technology on the countryside as depicted in the painting by George Inness of the railroad to the countryside in mid-nineteenth century America that envisions the impact of development in the past and in the future.
5. Ecology painting brings us to the world of Winslow Homer, famous for his Breezing Up (old man sailing with kids) and A House in the Bahamas, where he painted and wrote on the simple and beautiful life on this island nation.
6. Ecology painting leads us to experience the impact of technology on the countryside as depicted in the painting by George Inness of the railroad to the countryside in mid-nineteenth century America that envisions the impact of development in the past and in the future.
7. Ecology painting leads us to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the Jungle, not in actual setting, but imagined sceneries such as the Tropical Forest with Monkeys, a visit in nature's show windows from botanical gardens and zoos, to illustrations in books.
8. Ecology painting re-creates the setting of the novels Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, and lately, the multi-awarded movie Cast Away.
9. Ecology painting offers a balance to commercial art focusing on trade and commerce in the form of advertisements, billboards, and brings to mind the importance of nature in a highly industrialized world.
10. Ecology painting traces the early evolution of living things as depicted in fiction such as The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, and Jurassic Park, a movie directed by Steven Spielberg.
11. Ecology painting "brings" nature into our homes and communities to the delight of our children and folks, converts old and dirty walls into fresh landscapes with the ambiance of a park if not the natural world.
12. Ecology painting invites our viewers to visit the old section of the EcoSanctuary of St Paul University QC: wall murals of a tropical rainforest, coral reefs, watershed, and mountain biome, painted by the author. ~
Author's granddaughter Mackie, then 3 years old,
and members of his household pose before a
wall mural at his residence in Lagro, QC.
Global Warming in Paintings
"Destruction of Nature has greatly influenced the evolution of art from the classical and sublime to abstract and quite often, surreal." - avr
Summer in Winter in acrylic by AV Rotor 2025
Have you listened to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons lately?Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter - 300 years ago;Climate Change has disrupted their flow more than we know,and likely to many, lost them like a bedtime story.
Cyclone forms and dissipates paintings by AVR 2025
Lightly we take, as if for granted, forecasts of weather,yet put together for a time, bring us to our knees.How seldom do we look up to heaven, unless driveninto despair and lament, surrender and prayer.
Wildfire in acrylic 2025
"Wildfire sweeps over heartlands and forests,
farms, pastures, villages not spared,
heat wave takes its toll in towns and cities,
grown ups and children are scared." - avr
Author's note: Make this into lyrics of a song, contemporary style.
Desertification in various art works by the author.
Whatever happens to Mother Earth, we may askbefore the great divide - man the caring and loving,and man the greedy and proud - in between, manthe indifferent, uncommitted to life's greatest task.
Eerie Landscape wall mural smudged by carbon emission from vehicles, and exposure to sudden change of temperature and untimely rainfall, which characterize current climate change. Painted by AV Rotor, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur 2023
Listen to silence in grief and gloom,facing a wall once the fairest of all;a promontory no longer human form,his ship abandoned after his Fall.
Treetops, Aerial View in acrylic
Children would come to me, "Lolo, can we draw?""Perhaps you like to draw about today's news -flood in the US, wildfire and heat wave in Europe.""Lolo" they chorused, "We like beautiful views,like sunrise, green valleys, meandering stream..."Denying children's joy for news is no excuse. ~
Commemorative Plaques of Nature
Mounted butterflies on acrylic painting - biology specimens
and artwork combined.
"Souvenirs of nature grace our halls and homes,
imprimatur of man's relationship with her,
binding us through boundaries and generations,
beauty that both uphold and share." - avr
Coed holds mounted pyroclastic rock from Mt Pinatubo's eruption,
above her hangs a chandelier depicting endangered wildlife.
Right, aboriginal wooden gong, protocontinent relief, and marine
turtle carapace (uppermost).
Ephemeral and anthropocentric man's triumphs are,in trophies and awards - fading away by and by,like Narcissus seeing only himself, fell and drown,lament the deities, the lake asking why.
Relief paintings serve as reminder of the threatened conditions
of our environment. (Ruins from deforestation, GMO flowers
gone wild)
"When nature is subject of destruction,
she yearns for man's concern and action,
and compensates for his compassion." - avr
Nature painting speaks: "Let me give your eyes rest"
Dedicated to our postmodern living, with accompanying message.
Nature is the greatest teacher in acrylic by the author
Surrealism in our contemporary world - would you please explain? "
"Subtle may be nature's teachings,
yet deep in thoughts and feelings." - avr
Nature's trophies do not exult
but yearn for help.
Driftwood replica of the endangered Philippine Eagle
"Likeness of the giant bird in flight,
reminiscent of one no longer in sight." - avr
Tower ruins made of wood splinters, and deadwood rising to the sky,
with nature painting background to highlight the theme.
"Tower of Babel depicted in ruin,likened to a high rise building,short cut to glory and heaven,end of man's lofty dream." - avr
Shelf mushrooms crown a dead tree limb against
a mural background. AVR 2026
"Authentic trophy of Nature,indigenous, genuine,an adventure in study,out of relics and ruin." - avr
Mounted giant mussel clam with glass "pearls"; fossil of coral cum snails.
"Shells and corals make the living roomnature's museum and laboratory;move over plastic or any similar kind,for the mind to go back to reality." - avr
Shell collection - art and science. LWNC collection
"Art of a child, we may say,shells to stars forever;relics of the sea on the wall,a decor and treasure." - avr
Left, author (center) holds a driftwood of biblical blackbird, with house
guests holding the likenesses of an Archeopteryx and a Philippine eagle.
The Philippine eagle, also known as the monkey-eating eagle or great Philippine eagle, is a critically endangered species of eagle of the family Accipitridae which is endemic to forests in the Philippines.
"Extinct from the living world,
but not in the mind to behold." - avr
Wooden heads of Philippine deer, among vanishing indigenous artifacts. The Philippine deer, also known as the Philippine sambar or Philippine brown deer, is a vulnerable deer species endemic to the Philippines.
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"The past - the present and the future are without,
and the world would be in limbo for nought." - avr
Driftwood trophies resembling wildlife creatures, and depicting
future ruins of high rise buildings.~
Nature's trophies are all around,on the street, on the dumpsite,market and mall, park and playground,where we keep our waste out of sight. - avr ~
Global trends changing the way we live
The adage, "History repeats itself," is real: The rise and fall of the Greco-Roman Empire; the Dark Age - aftermath of the Bubonic Plague pestilence; two world wars in succession; and the recent Spanish Influenza (1920-22) which killed 50 to 100 million people. Other lost cultures like the Mayans, American Indians that "history forgot," notwithstanding.
And whose making are these tragic episodes of history? Albert Einstein has this to say, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” In this era of pandemic and post pandemic, we have yet to prove under the new normal humanity's resilience and resolve to cope up and prove that "history repeats itself for the better." Then, suddenly without apparent warning, the Russian-Ukraine conflict is escalating into war of global concern. Pessimists both from the old and new schools say it is the beginning of a third world war.
Global Warming, and Shrinking Nature, paintings by AVR 2015
1. Shrinking Nature - displacement of natural habitats with man-made settlements, wildlife is vanishing both in areas and biological diversity. Nature reserves cannot compensate for such loss, and will never be able to bring about ecological balance as a whole. "It is no longer us against Nature, instead it's we who decide what nature is and what it will be." says Paul Crutzen, Nobel Prize Awardee.2. Stressful modern living - the higher the status the more stressful life is. The social ladder takes us to the syndrome posed by Paulas'Hope for the Flowers. There is really nothing up there, but a stressful life at the apex of society. The stressors affecting the poor are different from those in higher society. Those suffering of high-status stress find it more difficult to adjust than their counterpart in lower society.
3. Loss of privacy - Yet we always strive to retain our privacy even in public. No way: the computer has all the info about us - true or not; our relationships on various levels, more so with our public image. Hidden cameras are everywhere, on the other hand we too, intrude into the privacy of others. GPS gives us information about places, with minute details, often intruding to one's privacy similar to trespassing.
4. Aging gracefully and Niche Aging - Forget conventional wisdom; gray-haired societies aren't a problem. Longevity is increasing all over the world: the average age of a Japanese is 78 years with America following at its heels with 75 or 76 years. We are quite close to China with at least 70 years. Science and technology, socio-cultural and economic opportunities make ageing a privilege today.
In an article - Niche Aging, author Harriet Barovick said, "...the generic settlement model is starting to give way to what developers are calling affinity housing - niche communities where people as they advance in age opt to grow old alongside others who share a specific interest. Niche living is the latest step in the evolution of the planned retirement community.
5. "Immortal" Food - Food that virtually last forever (by increasing the shelf life), while there is a current trend which is the opposite. Go natural - food, clothing, energy, housing, and practically anything we eat and use everyday. (See article, Living Naturally, in this Blog)
6. Black Irony - Blackness has many connotations and implications - principally, historical and religious. Black means race, hell, disease, death, hopelessness, discrimination. But all these cannot be grossly weighed as negative or destructive. Today when we talk of black we may be referring to the colored athletes who dominate many sports, great leaders of movements like Wangari who planted millions of trees in Kenya, and not to look far, former President Obama of the US, and the living hero of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Racial discrimination - racism and apartheid - may soon be a thing of the past. It is because man is created equal beneath their skin, and in fact, by circumstance, the colored races have proved superiority over the non-colored: in schools, scientific discoveries, business, technology - name it and you have a colored standing out.
7. "Handprints, not Footprints" - a more encouraging way to conceptualize our impact in our handprints; the sum of all the reductions we make in our footprints."
Eye of a dying coral as a result of global warming and pollution by AV Rotor 2005Says the brainchild of this idea, a Harvard professor. We can reduce the impact of living against the environment - less CO2, less CFC, less non-biodegradables and other synthetics, less pesticides, etc. On the other side of the equation would be the number of trees we plant, our savings on electricity and water. Lesser pollutants, if not arresting pollution itself - and the like.
8. "Your head is in the cloud" - The best way to explain this is in the article written by Annie Murphy Paul. To quote: "Inundated by more information that we can possibly hold in our heads, we're increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones." Never mind memorizing the multiplication table, or Mendeleev's Periodic Table of Elements. Spelling of a word, its homonym, antonym? Check it out on the computer. Presto! it will correct the word automatically. Search Love, and it comes in a thousand-and-one definitions. Assignment? Search, download, print, submit - just don't forget to place your name. Psychologists are back to the drawing board about learning. They have proposed a new term - transactive memory, a prelude to blending natural and artificial intelligence.
9. The rise of Nones - Nones are people who have no religious affiliation. More and more people are dissociating from organized religions, a kind of freedom to feel more devoted to God, of moving away from the scandals of the church, and money-making religions . For most, they are not rejecting God. They are rejecting organized religion as being rigid and dogmatic. However, a survey in the US showed that spiritual connection and community hasn't be severed by this new trend. Forty percent (40%) of the unaffiliated are fairly religious, and many of them are still hoping to eventually find the right religious home.
10. Living alone is the new norm - Solitary living is spreading all over the world. It is the biggest social change that has been long neglected. Living solo is highest in Sweden (47%), followed by Britain (37%). Following the list in decreasing order are Japan, Italy, US, Canada, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and Brazil (10%). Living alone helps people pursue sacred modern values - individual freedom, personal control and self realization. In Lonely American, however, Harvard psychiatrists warn of increased aloneness and the movement toward greater social isolation, which are detrimental to health and happiness to the person, and in the long run, to the community and nation.
11. Common Wealth - National interests aren't what they used to be. Our survival requires global solutions. The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet. Global warming, acid rain, El Niño, don't know political boundaries.
12. The End of Customer Service - With self-service technology, you'll never have to see a clerk again. It is an era of self-service - from filling up gas to banking to food service. Swipe your ID card to enter an office or a school campus. Credit cards abound, so with many kinds of coupons, all self service.
13. The Post-Movie-Star Era. Get ready for more films in which the leading man is not "he" but "Who?" Goodbye James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Fernando Poe Jr. Welcome Nemo in Finding Nemo, Xi in Gods Must be Crazy.
14. Reverse Radicalism . Want to stop terrorism? Start talking to terrorists who stop themselves. Conflicts arising from radicalism can be settled through peaceful rather than by bloody means.
15. Kitchen Chemistry . Why the squishy art of cooking is giving way to cold, hard science? There are specialized courses in culinary art, with the chef as central figure with a degree. Home economics has grown into Hotel and Restaurant Management.
16. Geoengineering . Messing with Nature caused global warming. Messing with it more might fix it. Can we ignite a volcano to cool the earth like the eruption of Mt Pinatubo did twenty five years ago? Scientists believe we can divert an approaching typhoon out of its path. Better still abort it at its early stage.
17.Curing the "Dutch Disease." How resource-rich nations can unravel the paradox of plenty. It's true, oil-rich nations in the Middle East - and Holland, and lately Nigeria, where the term was developed - are not growing fast in terms of Gross Domestic Products (GDP). Now compare this is non-oil rich nations like China and Vietnam, which are growing close to 10 percent annually in GDP.
18. Women's Work. Tapping the female entrepreneurial; spirit can pay big dividends. Women's Lib brought the female species at par - if not excel - with its counterpart. More and more women are occupying high positions in government and industries. Women may soon have higher literacy rates than men.
19. Beyond the Olympics. Coming: Constant TV coverage of global sporting events. Boxing grew into various titles, football games in various tournaments fill the TV screen. New sports and games are coming out.
20. Jobs Are the New Assets. A sampling of fast-growing occupations - Actuaries, financial analyst, computer programmer, fitness trainer, biophysicists, translators, manicurists, marriage counselors, radiologists. Need a design for your product? Give it to an IT graduate with a background in design. Need a kind of product or service not found in the mall or supermarket, search the Internet. Entrepreneurs have taken over much of the functions of big business. Unemployment has given rise to this new breed - the entrepreneurs.
21. Recycling the Suburbs. Environmentalists will celebrate the demise of sprawling suburbs, which left national addicted to cars. Infrastructures will be converted in favor of "green", town centers, public libraries, museums, sports centers, parks. Notice the gas stations along NLEX and South Road, they have transformed into a complex where motorists can enjoy their brief stopover. More and more countries are imposing regulation to green the cities, from sidewalks to rooftops. Hanging Gardens of Babylon, anyone? If this was one of the wonders of the ancient world, why certainly we can make a replicate - perhaps a bigger one - given all our modern technology and enormous available capital.
22. The New Calvinism. More moderate evangelicals are exploring cures for doctrinal drift, offering some assurance to "a lot of young people growing up in sub-cultures of brokenness, divorce, drugs, sexual temptations, etc."
23. Reinstating the Interstate, the Superhighways. These are becoming a new network of light rail and "smart power" electric grid. This is the alternative to car culture that thrives on fossil fuel and promotes suburban sprawl.
24. Amortality - "non-moral sensitive" or "neutral morality' - whatever you may call it, this thinking has revolutionized our attitudes toward age. There are people who "refuse to grow old," people who wish to be resurrected from his cryonized corpse.
9. The rise of Nones - Nones are people who have no religious affiliation. More and more people are dissociating from organized religions, a kind of freedom to feel more devoted to God, of moving away from the scandals of the church, and money-making religions . For most, they are not rejecting God. They are rejecting organized religion as being rigid and dogmatic. However, a survey in the US showed that spiritual connection and community hasn't be severed by this new trend. Forty percent (40%) of the unaffiliated are fairly religious, and many of them are still hoping to eventually find the right religious home.
10. Living alone is the new norm - Solitary living is spreading all over the world. It is the biggest social change that has been long neglected. Living solo is highest in Sweden (47%), followed by Britain (37%). Following the list in decreasing order are Japan, Italy, US, Canada, Russia, South Africa, Kenya, and Brazil (10%). Living alone helps people pursue sacred modern values - individual freedom, personal control and self realization. In Lonely American, however, Harvard psychiatrists warn of increased aloneness and the movement toward greater social isolation, which are detrimental to health and happiness to the person, and in the long run, to the community and nation.
11. Common Wealth - National interests aren't what they used to be. Our survival requires global solutions. The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet. Global warming, acid rain, El Niño, don't know political boundaries.
12. The End of Customer Service - With self-service technology, you'll never have to see a clerk again. It is an era of self-service - from filling up gas to banking to food service. Swipe your ID card to enter an office or a school campus. Credit cards abound, so with many kinds of coupons, all self service.
13. The Post-Movie-Star Era. Get ready for more films in which the leading man is not "he" but "Who?" Goodbye James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Fernando Poe Jr. Welcome Nemo in Finding Nemo, Xi in Gods Must be Crazy.
14. Reverse Radicalism . Want to stop terrorism? Start talking to terrorists who stop themselves. Conflicts arising from radicalism can be settled through peaceful rather than by bloody means.
15. Kitchen Chemistry . Why the squishy art of cooking is giving way to cold, hard science? There are specialized courses in culinary art, with the chef as central figure with a degree. Home economics has grown into Hotel and Restaurant Management.
16. Geoengineering . Messing with Nature caused global warming. Messing with it more might fix it. Can we ignite a volcano to cool the earth like the eruption of Mt Pinatubo did twenty five years ago? Scientists believe we can divert an approaching typhoon out of its path. Better still abort it at its early stage.
17.Curing the "Dutch Disease." How resource-rich nations can unravel the paradox of plenty. It's true, oil-rich nations in the Middle East - and Holland, and lately Nigeria, where the term was developed - are not growing fast in terms of Gross Domestic Products (GDP). Now compare this is non-oil rich nations like China and Vietnam, which are growing close to 10 percent annually in GDP.
18. Women's Work. Tapping the female entrepreneurial; spirit can pay big dividends. Women's Lib brought the female species at par - if not excel - with its counterpart. More and more women are occupying high positions in government and industries. Women may soon have higher literacy rates than men.
19. Beyond the Olympics. Coming: Constant TV coverage of global sporting events. Boxing grew into various titles, football games in various tournaments fill the TV screen. New sports and games are coming out.
20. Jobs Are the New Assets. A sampling of fast-growing occupations - Actuaries, financial analyst, computer programmer, fitness trainer, biophysicists, translators, manicurists, marriage counselors, radiologists. Need a design for your product? Give it to an IT graduate with a background in design. Need a kind of product or service not found in the mall or supermarket, search the Internet. Entrepreneurs have taken over much of the functions of big business. Unemployment has given rise to this new breed - the entrepreneurs.
21. Recycling the Suburbs. Environmentalists will celebrate the demise of sprawling suburbs, which left national addicted to cars. Infrastructures will be converted in favor of "green", town centers, public libraries, museums, sports centers, parks. Notice the gas stations along NLEX and South Road, they have transformed into a complex where motorists can enjoy their brief stopover. More and more countries are imposing regulation to green the cities, from sidewalks to rooftops. Hanging Gardens of Babylon, anyone? If this was one of the wonders of the ancient world, why certainly we can make a replicate - perhaps a bigger one - given all our modern technology and enormous available capital.
22. The New Calvinism. More moderate evangelicals are exploring cures for doctrinal drift, offering some assurance to "a lot of young people growing up in sub-cultures of brokenness, divorce, drugs, sexual temptations, etc."
23. Reinstating the Interstate, the Superhighways. These are becoming a new network of light rail and "smart power" electric grid. This is the alternative to car culture that thrives on fossil fuel and promotes suburban sprawl.
24. Amortality - "non-moral sensitive" or "neutral morality' - whatever you may call it, this thinking has revolutionized our attitudes toward age. There are people who "refuse to grow old," people who wish to be resurrected from his cryonized corpse.
Our Dying Earth becoming virtually a fossil planet, painting by the author
25. Africa , Business Destination. Next "economic miracle" is in the black continent. Actually it has began stirring the economic consciousness of investors and developers.
26. The Rent-a-Country. Corporate Farming, an approach pioneered by the Philippines in the 60's and 70s, is now adopted by giant companies to farm whole valleys, provinces, island, of countries other than their own. Call it neo-colonialism, - these are food contracts, the latest new green revolution, more reliable food security.
27. Biobanks. Safe deposits - freezers full of tissues for transplants, cryotude for blood samples, liquid nitrogen storage for sperms and eggs, test-tube baby laboratories and clinics. Welcome, surrogate motherhood, post-menopausal technology, in-situ cloning, multiple birth technology, and the like.
28. Survival Stores. Sensible shops selling solar panels, electric bicycles, power generators, energy food bars, portable windmill, etc. Attributes: living off the grid, smart recycling, sustainability, consume less, self-sufficiency, basic+ useful, durable lifetime guarantee, hip + cool community, independent, responsible, co-op, brand-free, out of the oven, goodness-driven, health fitness, meditation, bartering, sharing, socialistic capitalism.
29. Ecological Intelligence. There are guidelines now available to judge products on their social and environmental impact. This is new culture characterized by environment-consciousness, environment-friendliness. Here life-cycle assessment and clean-up corporate ecology become an obligation. We are going back - happily and beautifully to a simple and natural lifestyle.30. Ecomigration - As global warming continues and the sea level rises more and more low lying areas will be swallowed up by the sea. Before this happens, people will have to move to safer grounds. This phenomenon is happening to many island in the Pacific, among them the Kiribati and Micronesia groups of islands.
Distorted reality - a product of postmodernism, acrylic painting by AVRotor
Reference: Living with Nature Volumes 1 and 2 by A V Rotor; Time Magazine, March 24, 2008 and March 23, 2009; Time Magazine March 12, 2012; Internet
in Search of the Evolution of Art
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Albert Einstein
Botanical Garden and Plant Nursery
Art Gallery
Museum and Library
Make believe hugging a tree on a wall mural
Tree Hugging raises awareness about the importance of trees and forests, and to promote social and health benefits. It is counterpart of Valentine's love and affection to Mother Nature. 
Backyard raising of native fowls and hito (catfish), and arboretum exude a natural ambiance of unspoiled nature, today's evolving subject of art's role in ecology.
Art and Nature in various presentations on conventional canvas,
on wall mural, impressionistic and abstract.
Author poses with student guests before a nature wall mural.
Luis Domingo, Ivy Ramos, Jusmerl Brandon Rafanan and Angel Malapit.
Butterfly specimens mounted on painted canvas. An experimental
approach in biology and painting combination.
Come, let me give your eyes rest.*
"Look deep into this image painted by one whose eyes have long sought for peace and rest through some connection with Nature."
Come, let me give your eyes rest, in acrylic (33.5" x 24") by AV Rotor 2025
Painting on display at the Living with Nature Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
Are your eyes tired of too much exposure on the computer, day and night, hour after hour, rushing up school assignments, work-at-home deadlines, tracking down news here and abroad, or simply playing games which is actually a straining pastime?
Are your eyes tired from heavy schedule in office, at the workplace, driving through heavy traffic beating rush hour and the Bundy clock, for hours, going out and back home, at daybreak and after work, and doing errands in between?
Are your eyes tired of too much drama on stage and screen, audio-visons virtually without end, fiesta or no fiesta, searching for apparition in the sky, braving the camera and floodlights, looking into the lens for the unseen, and now, with AI magical power?
Are your eyes tired of blinding and blinking lights on the highway complex of vehicles, floodlights and billboards, in restaurants and bars, even in the park you think relaxing to spend a weekend with your family, or simply alone for reflection?
Are your eyes tired of reading novels, printed or in e-book versions by your favorite authors like Hemingway, for contemporary realism; Pasternak, for refined radicalism; Mark Twain, for boys' adventure; Jules Verne, for prototype futurism?
Are your eyes tired of the imagery of Future Shock and Eco-Spasm by Alvin Toffler, of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the age of slavery in the US, of Ann Frank's Diary of a lonely and frightful world during WW II, of Orwellian Big Brother syndrome in "1984"?
Are your eyes tired, seeing not only real vision but after-visions accumulated through hours and hours of concentration in school, office, home, and residues of visual experiences surreptitiously stored in your Jungian psyche?
Look deep into this image painted by one whose eyes have long sought for peace and rest, for connection with Nature in the sky and into the deep, in the microcosm of a leaf, filaments of algae, rootlets, buds, myriads of unseen mysteries of creation.
And in seeing all these, you may find your way back to the beauty, innocence and joy, to the simplicity and harmony of life and living. ~
Details of painting, Come, let me give your eyes rest, by AV Rotor 2025.
* Poetry reading with Ilocano musical background No Duaduaem Pay (If Ever You Doubt Me) - recitation by Ivy Ramos with accompaniment on the violin by the author.
"Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity." - Mae Jemison
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