Doomsayer (44" x 60") by Paul Baines is the ninth limited edition print in the Indoor Street Art series available here. We live in a world of perpetual fear, our history is based upon it, our belief systems, as varied as they are will always rely on its power to instil a greater message than a current ideology can either generate or harbour within one era, it empowers governments, feeds the media, and sells merchandise by the truck load.
Fear breeds fear, fear and in particular Man's misinterpretation of his destiny manifest opens the doors to twisted wisdom, unfounded knowledge and biased intellect that only hindsight can reveal as the propaganda it truly is. 2012, as with its former incarnation 1999, has been nailed down as the latest date prophesying the end of the world. Fewer and fewer individuals pay heed to the doomsayers of this world, the problems are obvious enough as it is without the flawed logic and misinterpreted historical texts of Mayan symbols, Nostradamus's texts and a plethora of astrological mutterings from the glossies to best-selling paranoid rantings of pulp fiction meets fact authors, who have generation by generation relied on the plebeian beliefs of the dullest minds for the cash cow that is the "prophecy game".
I don't believe that a particular date or time can wholly contain the harbinger of doom, the key to our downfall, the moment of catastrophe that will befall the human race, and I pity those who do. I particularly feel sorry for the sandwich board clad apostles of a forgotten fire and brimstone belief system who continue to parade the streets of every major city, year in and year out, declaring yet another oncoming apocalypse. If it comes it comes, if it doesn't it doesn't, what I do know is that it won't be happening on the 21st of December 2012, although I will say this. Those who proclaim a devout belief in doom are essentially engaging in a war on hope, a battle with possibility, a divergence from collective achievement, and in essence are "willing the end" for us all.
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I'd rather see these people holding up boards that proclaimed the insanity of the destruction of the earth through pollution, the final destruction of the permafrost of the North Pole, the irresponsibility of the reliance upon nuclear power as a viable alternative for fossil fuels, a meaningful dialogue would be more than welcome, a flat out lie, I and many others will ignore, forever more.
The masses, what we, the population were once described as, proscribed to, are a myth. We are now at last a race of highly informed individuals, whether we or our respective governments like it or not. Corporations have tried to deal with the emergence of an intelligent race with niche marketing, product placement, customisation of our lives, but to tag us by sex, race, income, and other superfluous categories is not enough. Emotionally we hold between us a vast range of beliefs, intellectually we are beginning to converge, life is made from energy, it runs at a faster vibration than matter, where the two meet, that is the individual consciousness, but to witness the alchemy of a third wavelength, a new and more forcefully co-operative consciousness, we need to form a tighter connectivity, a greater collectivity, a bridge of understanding made from the foundations of our recognition of our past mistakes, and suspended on our best and most accurate suppositions of potential and possibility. We can chart a graph, a ratio, but we cannot climb percentages, we can only experiment and diversify into the most forward thinking alternative practices we can muster, before space, resources, and common sense give way to the laws and instincts of survival.
Let's make a promise to each other one and all, come the end, even if it is staring us blankly, ominously in the face, lets not wear sandwich boards, we can talk, we can discuss, we can panic if you like, but let's not lecture the streets with quotations from Revelations, let's take it on the chin, calmly and collectively, let's take it like a man(kind).
Doomsayer (44" x 60") by Paul Baines is now available as a limited edition print. To purchase this work please click the button below.
hi, nice blog
Your Blog is very interesting.great work.
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looks rad. Nice work
You always produce such thoughtful work. It sticks on the inside of my head like maple syrup did on my forearms when I was a kid.
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Thanks people, Erik strange but love the analogy lol. I do aim to ‘imprint’ wherever possible.
hai… nice blog U have unique and very attractive….good work!
Wow, that looks amazing. The hood on the guy holding the 2012 sign makes him look really ominous. Very cool. Total stock liquidation for the end of the world. Great analogy. Very cool post.
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This is a great image, and I can only hope that the doomsayer-2012 message is all wrong…. three more years just isn’t enough. But who can say: maybe aliens will pop in and visit then…
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Hey thanks Rob – ah well if the world does end I’m sure just about everything else from the pages of a Hollywood blockbuster script will happen that same day :p
Cool piece! wild colours and great detail.