I turned 60 in 2022 and my first grandchild was also born that year. As I age, I also reflect on the mortality of everything in this world. We all leave a record of our lives, and in this technological age, more and more of us have the ability to leave those records in a way that our forefathers could not have ever envisioned. Ironically, with all of the data we now can leave behind, that data will get buried in an exponentially increasing sea of future information.
To use an analogy... How many of us have pondered the total amount of leaves that fall on the ground each fall? How many of us have noticed an individual leaf in a pile of thousands and thousands of them as we take a walk in the fall. They are here for a few weeks, then winter comes in all of its brutality, and breaks down all of those leaves into dust.
It is sobering to realize that there will be no future remembrance of the vast majority of individuals who have walked this earth (117,000,000,000 and counting). One hundred years from now, who will recall us or even think about our existence, even for a brief moment? Everything, and I mean everything, will eventually fade to dust, at least in this mortal world.
The 2 shows explore life and death and our shared mortality, but each show has a different point of view of those subjects.
(r)evolutions presents a view of the world where God does not exist.
(re)generations presents a view of the world where God exists and desires a relationship with man.
I hope to be able to exhibit both shows at a single venue. The name of the show will be (if)not.