First Step

Now that the Birth of Planet Earth 2.0 on August 29, 2009 is behind us, it is time to begin to face forwards and embrace the possible future that came with it.

Planet Earth 2.0 is a reality welcomed by the 150 or so people who attended its aesthetic birth and the many who graciously signed the manifesto which becomes its birth certificate. More on that event will be forthcoming.

Right now, however, I will like to focus on the work titled "First Step" that was the centerpiece of the event and to open the dialog about that work in this blog.

First Step is a visual interpretation of a rather complex narrative that describes what is happening at the onset of this historical time when the stakes are high, the realities inevitable and the consequences of doing nothing disastrous.

First Step is set in such a moment of reckoning as when we realize individually that our collective problems are global in scope, out of reach from conventional social organization, out of reach from classical institutions and out of reach from our localized and fragmented cultures.

The figure on the painting is humanity reflecting on this while thinking outside of the box. The box is a portrait of our dislocated world marred in the everlasting cycle of more of the same and business as usual. Rising from the floor (in the image) is a platform with two ascending steps. The first is occupied by a "Peace Marker," a sculptural component of the Worldwide Peace Marker Project (WPMP) that as a project is the proof of concept to Planet Earth 2.0, to our ability to create a new world and to the availability of unique ideas to guide its construction.

WPMP is a work in progress that will deliver to humanity a new experience that is so powerful that it will cement globally, not just the notion that Planet Earth 2.0 is an emerging reality, but that it is a world that can be built upon a foundation of a kind of peace that we have never known.

The second step is occupied by the Earth Globe where the first fifteen of 198 Peace Markers already in existence are marked (with natural pearls) in place in their respective nations across four continents.

Upon completion, the WPMP installation of one marker per each nation in the world as embraced and represented by one WPMP Artist Ambassador per each nation of the world would amount to a global representation of the entire human population. We will truly be one species working together to accomplish one thing. That "thing" is our specie's first global model of an application of Sufficiency. The result being at last, a working template for world peace.

This experience will be the irrefutable evidence that we can work together collaboratively as a single species without having to relinquish origin, identity or cultural roots.

Overall, First Step shows us the environment in which we as a species can enter together, in peace, in a new age of transition to build for ourselves a new world.

This is an example of Data A art. That is, it is art in the real context of life.

First Step was a collaboration between WPMP Artist Ambassador to France Ms. Julie Nedelec who painted the large canvas and me who rounded up the idea with the 3 dimensional components.

Tiité

To read more about Worldwide Peace Marker Project, visit http://www.wpmp.net/

To read more about Sufficiency, visit http://www.tiite.com/sufficiency.htm

To read more about Data A - art, visit http://www.tiite.com/data%20a.htm