To Create And Destroy, 2023

Cleon Peterson   Emerging artists

Message from the artist :
We've entered a new age of global crisis. Modern dread, hopelessness, and existential anxiety have become common and relegated to the subconscious. The individual walks the streets feeling a sense of alienation and that society, coopted by media technology, politics, and an undercurrent of hate and confusion, is unraveling.

The ideas sold to us for so long that technology and human compassion will save us from our dark nature look more like magical thinking.

Human ethics and our shared knowledge of historical truth seem to be fading away, replaced by the almighty idea that everything is "just business" and that we must take what you can get now.

In the name of power, politicians summon mobs to violence and demand our outrage and attention with promises of returning us to a past that never was or promising us futures that will never be. At the same time, capitalists offer us redemption and meaning through the last thing that connects us all, consumption.

It all feels like the start of a new brand of crisis that humanity has never experienced before, giving us the sallow feeling that we are both at the end and the beginning of something bigger than the unceasing human
conquest for power.

Cleon Peterson

A great collector from the Artist as it represent his first solo exhibition in Japan in seven years.

This is the version Gold.

45 x 36 inch. Hand-pulled screen print. printed on 290gsm Coventry Rag paper with deckled edges. Signed and numbered. Limited edition of 75.

This is the number 37/75.