"PORTRAIT OF A GLOBAL PERSON"

CERAMIC, 2020

Every tool used by a human extends their biological capabilities. A knife is a technical extension of the hand, a car replaces legs. Beyond amplifying human abilities, the problem with a tool is that it weakens the organs, limbs of its user. And what happens to our minds, increasingly replaced by computers, artificial intelligence? Besides the limitation of independent intellectual capabilities, our dependence on the digital world ties in with a problem depicted by the lack of a face in the portrait. Let's call this problem the "issue of the global person." Our access to globally unified culture takes away from us a trait of identity that the uniqueness of different cultures has built.