Title: “Daemon Space”

Medium: Oil, gold metallic and reactive black light paint on aluminum

Size: 12” wood tondo, gold leaf edges

Price: $1000.00

Signature: yes, on the back.

There's nothing more seductive than an idea planted in a fertile mind.

“Daemon Space” plays on mythological and contemporary uses of the word “daemon” in a meditation on what really divides our digital lives from spiritual things.

In mythological sources daemon were spirits that operated in the background of our world, having what human's might deem “godlike” powers. More often associated with wickedness, it's original meaning was a spirit or agent that was not unlike humans in its ability to choose evil or good.

In our more contemporary use of the word “daemon” can refer to a program that operates in the background doing “high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information.” According to Wordnik.com . We've all had the misfortune of a mailer daemon returning emails it claims it can't send.

Again it reminds me of the quote by Arthur C. Clarke: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.