Heather's Big Painting

This has several layers starting with petroglyphs, then handwriting and ending with binary code. I was interested in conveying the cultural layers that are imbedded in the collective unconscious and how our current culture will be overwritten by new forms of language in the future. I'm also interested in how the unconscious is hidden below the surface and yet makes its presence known in some everyday actions. When I was painting the binary code of repetitive ones and zeros, my mind would sometimes wander to other things. When this happened my hand made a symbol that encircled the one with the zero. To me this is emblematic of inclusion, rather than binary...in other words, self and other are one and the same.