This is my "likeness" depicting human disgrace and shame, the repository of our many faults, a final "Epitaph".

Our way of life on this planet has been conceived without much thought regarding any of it's consequences. It is a commercially minded, materialistically driven profiteering formulation, that we have concocted to encourage the growth and material wealth of human only life. We are blindly ignoring the rest of planetary life and the symbiotic interconnected web that supports every living thing. Our selfish ways of life are being propelled ahead by a ravenous human industry, driven by a completely uncaring male dominated brute like force. A totally self-seeking realization for planetary conquest that we humans have manifested, solely to promote and elevate modern human civilization. All of it doomed from the beginning by our blatant arrogance to rather obvious failure, the moment we began our enterprising sentient rise out of the evolutionary mud's of cosmic existence.

Clearly to any enlightened observer we humans have ignored trivialized and dismissed the genuine reality of planetary being. As a result we have been freed up intellectually to savage and plunder our only supporting life giving base. Humanity has adopted this destructive path, to fashion and mold our civilization on the unstable quicksands of our perceived industrial might. All of it has been done under that presumption of imagining ourselves as somehow being above our true seminal mud evolved origins. We falsely believe that we have been inspired by divinities who appear to reside in a mythical "sky". As a result we humans always pray looking up believing in our imaginary illusions and not down to where we were actually birthed.

Despite our highly egocentric religious natures, our planetary civilization appears headed directly towards immanent self annihilation. Our soon downfall and decent into a climate induced dog eat dog chaos, is being brought on by our overly swift, none organically in tune ascendancy. Our extreme dependency on a fossil fuel stoked industrial reign, that we are all so seemingly proud of, so much so that we literally take it for granted. As well as our unsustainable artificially concocted commercially stocked reality, that has been birthed out of rampant grasping material greed, and which will quite clearly lead us directly towards a lethal planetary catastrophe. Unfortunately under our current highly polluting mercantile civilizing formulation, this fatal reality is now quite certain and no longer simply the speculation of those fringe environmentally protective elements in society. In the end it will be quite life threatening and very reality devastating, literally to every manifestation of life this planet has managed to organically manifested.

In the ensuing decades here on this miracle of a unique cosmic oasis, there are going to be increasingly horrific human induced planetary wide flora and fauna life extinction events occurring continually. The biosphere which even now has a fever and has become unpredictably destabilized is obviously wobbling itself towards faltering. A reality that is clear to those few among us who are actually paying attention to their surroundings. Will soon no longer due to a rapid planetary temperature rise that will provoke climate and seasonal instability, be able to continue supporting or encouraging symbiotic organic life. Organically manifested life requires the certainty of defined seasons and the stability of growing routine to thrive flourish and mature. Life does not survive well in the chaos of a highly fluctuating unstable supporting system, which we billions of humans are literally forcing upon the biosphere through our uncaring ways.

The absolute bottom line truth is, here on our only home world, we are apparently callous heartless and more importantly completely un-evolved cosmically soulless planetary beings. Especially so here in North America and no doubt elsewhere, we are some how willing to pray looking up to highly irrational concepts of human imagined gods for our salvation and redemption. Intellectual realizations we have conceived just to try and explain our existence and purpose here in this cosmos. But the reality is these gods we so fervently pray too literally do not exist, except in our insane demented realizations of them. All the while we foolish organic beings are in the process of slowly strangling, literally murdering our true birthing Mother. The one and only genuine creator, our eons long provider and the faithful sustainer of organic life, this alive one in cosmic billions fertile Mothering Planet.

We humans it seems are exactly like wayward destructive adolescents, vandalizing and graffiting the eons old symbiotic environment through our continuous reckless eco-raping, commercial pillaging, and industrial plundering. Not to mention our highly destructive carbon off gassing from burning the planet's ancient safely stored fossil fuel carbon sinks, which powers and propels just about everything there is in our civilization. With the result that we are fatally poisoning, literally trashing the delicately evolved and organically balanced living synergetic cosmic womb of life.

We are literally, in our total blindness to the genuine reality of planetary existence, killing off the fundamental core impulse for cosmic life. We are irresponsibly forcing the blackness and stench of death upon the light of symbiotic succor, guidance and encouragement that's to be found in a genuine organic life stream, here on this inspired womb of planetary existence.

This living world is a symbiotically manifested and clearly evolutionarily driven, endless life and sentience providing, primary Mother Cosmic Planet. At this very moment it is being raped and strangled to death by her own sentient, ignorant ruthless children. Our fertile planet is sadly in the process of becoming an irretrievably and fatally brutalized casualty of continued human growth, polluting activities and carelessness during this present era, the anthropogenic epoch. It is clear that this mutilation of cosmic reality and the cold blooded assassination of planetary existence that is now clearly unfolding. Is being perpetrated by the planet's unworthy greedy grasping sentient issue.

The majority of humans on this planet would never admit to themselves or others, that we have evolved into cruel uncaring industrially devouring monsters. We clearly are in the process of devastating the pristine organic reality, and in turn that lack of caring will certainly end up destroying us. In the end this gross violation of planetary moral and ethical organic codes and boundaries, the spoliation and cruel uncaring murder of primary planetary existence, is going to be scarred into the planet's lash marked back as humanities true and undeniable long lasting Epitaph.

The mural is comprised of 896 scanned Kodachrome 25 ISO slides. This collection of imagery was originally photographed in Calcutta, (Kolkata) India during their yearly 1994 Kali Puja (festival).

However the mural image as seen here was never taken by a camera. It has been wholly created by image placement using 3x4.5 inch half scale proof prints carefully taped, image by image onto my studio wall.

The mural consists of sixteen separate panels, each 42x72 inches or 107x183 cm in scale. Every panel contains 56 - 6x9 inch or 15x23cm digitized images. The size of the finished mural as seen here with myself in the image to show scale is, 14 x 24 ft or 4.2 x 7.2 meters.