The early morning mist shrouds the famous statue of David, by famous artist and sculptor Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known simply as Michelangelo. This ethereal representation is an enhanced image I took in Firenze (Florence), Italy in 2015.

The history of the statue of David begins before Michelangelo’s work on it from 1501 to 1504.
With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the early modern period following classical antiquity, a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.

The biblical figure David was a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Because of the nature of the figure it represented, the statue soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties embodied in the 1494 constitution of the Republic of Florence, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the political aspirations of the Medici family.

Up close and personal with nature once again, this artwork is a mirrored image of the centre of a banksia flower.

Look closely and you will see its two beady eyes staring you down.
Its arms stretched out toward you.
Is it reaching out to embrace you? Or… something else?

HUMANITY

Humans see beauty and grace in the natural world.

We marvel at things that for us, seem impossible to achieve or replicate.

So, in an effort to prove ourselves – to who knows who or what – we study, analyse and copy those miracles of nature.

We succeed.

But then something weird happens.
Pride and other destructive human conditions come into play.

Instead of sharing, we lay false claims to our discoveries and try to take ownership of them.

Then, when conflicts arise, we weaponise them and turn those new-found technologies against each other, ultimately destroying the world that gave them to us in the first place.

INSANITY

HUMANITY

Humans see beauty and grace in the natural world.

We marvel at things that for us, seem impossible to achieve or replicate.

So, in an effort to prove ourselves – to who knows who or what – we study, analyse and copy those miracles of nature.

We succeed.

But then something weird happens.
Pride and other destructive human conditions come into play.

Instead of sharing, we lay false claims to our discoveries and try to take ownership of them.

Then, when conflicts arise, we weaponise them and turn those new-found technologies against each other, ultimately destroying the world that gave them to us in the first place.

INSANITY