Acts of Creation is the series of oil / oil+acrylic paintings which depicts hands performing some kind of action. The meaning is profound and multifaceted. Handprints traced on cave walls are among the oldest known drawings, when people started to explore their physical boundaries and the beginning of cognition. Today, we are entering a new era of artificial intelligence, in which humanity must once again understand and redefine its place in the world, like it was many centuries ago. We have begun to believe that human beings and their manual labor can be fully replaced by machines, and society is now facing the question of self-identification: who am I in this world, and what is my value?
In the Acts of Creation series, I explore the irreplaceability of humans by robots, highlighting the forgotten value of manual labor — which is becoming both a new luxury and a symbol of soulful, timeless values. I also reflect on the “quintessence of action”: even in the world of high technology and immaterial, intellectual labor, there is always a hand that presses the button.
