Never Satisfied

This painting explores the failed legacy of industrialization. Despite all the good it has done for us, it has and will do far more harm. The woman lying broken with exposed wiring and mechanisms, is caught between being a human and a machine. She embodies the cost of relentless, reckless advancement.

Unlike nature’s cycles of decay and renewal, post-industrial progress rarely restores what it consumes. Each revolution leaves deeper and deeper scars all while accelerating toward the next. At its core is a hunger that is never satisfied: that is the cycle. No invention is enough, no progress is final. The pursuit only feeds itself, even as it devours what sustains us.

Reflective Question: If progress always demands sacrifice, whose future are we sacrificing?

Never Satisfied, 16 x 16", 11/23, oil on canvas

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