017b - Mat Brown - “The discovery of Eschaton: Immanentize the Climate Change” - Edition of 30

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017b - Mat Brown - “The discovery of Eschaton: Immanentize the Climate Change” - Edition of 30

“The discovery of Eschaton: Immanentize the Climate Change” By Mat Brown

This work is based on the renaissance painting “The discovery of honey” by Piero Di Cosimo and changes the discovery of honey to the discovery of oil. The story of the discovery of honey is about the founding of ‘civilization’ and also the origin of alcohol, Bacchus and his bacchantes coax bees to swarm and settle in the hollow of a tree, in a sense harnessing nature. The framing of the discovery of oil as akin to the founding of civilization places oil as the structural foundation of our modern world. The context in which oil is seen today is that of the evils of society, climate change and the perceived end of the world or death of nature is taught as the prevailing worldview to children of the west. Greta Thunberg appears as god in the clouds looking down on society and judging it’s ills. This work likens the climate change narrative to the millenarian sects of christianity like the Hutterites, Mennonites and Amish who in short believe that we are living through a thousand years of evil. The entire composition is structured around the fibonacci spiral, starting in the bottom left corner and spiralling into the cell phone displaying the famous Mandelbrot set held by a scientist refining oil.

Bio:
Mat Brown has been creating and selling original ink drawings on the international market for the last 15 plus years and is part of various international collections, both private and public. Having recently published his first book and completed a second book; Mat’s body of work over the last ten years is not a series of individual pieces but rather one continuous whole, comprised of hundreds of drawings that make up a satirical narrative history of the world. Working entirely with ink on paper up to this point Brown is now experimenting with partially digital work, printing digital layers on paper and drawing on these prints with ink to be digitally scanned and printed or sold as an NFT. These two works are Mat Brown’s first foray into the NFT market.