Ancient robots. Tourists at the bottom of prehistoric ocean

✷ ✧ ☼ Ancient robots. Tourists at the bottom of prehistoric ocean ✦ ✹ ✵
✷ ✧ ☼ Starożytne roboty. Turystki na dnie prehistorycznego oceanu ✦ ✹ ✵

What if artificial intelligence was first and it has created organic life, and we humans are a product of its creation? Maybe AI was bored with itself, with infinite geometry and phosphor green lines of codes and desired something more unpredictable?

This painting is connected to my trip to the Cyprus island where we were with my friend Helena in March of 2022. We hitch-hiked to the place on the eastern coast, called The First Sunrise of Europe. At some point we realised that we are surrounded be fossilised rocks that once were a bottom of the sea. Helena got obsessed with collecting ammonites and I was playing with my hoop. Landscape was so different from anything that I have seen before. And it was constantly changing and evolving as we were hiking. For a long time green colour didn’t exist around us. But me - an Earth born girl - I was wearing my favourite moss-like green pullover, it was exceptionally comforting for me to wear it at that time. I felt like we have travelled from a distant place in space, passing all the planets of our solar system on the way and at the end reaching planet Earth and babylonian town of Aija Napa. We came back there late in the night. It was off season and we could freely walk between strange theme restaurants - Pirates, Flintstones, Cowboys, empty hotels and lunaparks, admiring the products of human creativity.

100x130cm
2022
Oil on canvas