Succubus

Succubus - A 21st Century She-Devil personifying the automated collective consciousness vampirizing the soul of the individual. She is playing with her cellphone, a man bound helplessly to the screen. From her pineal gland to his crotch area extends an ambiguous energy beam. She towers over an archaic fantasy city. Her skin is embedded with circuity, and she wears a sort of chrome armor bikini. It is at once an allegory for humanity's relationship with the internet, and a satire of old courtship games invented with social media and smartphones.

The painting was presented at this year's Burning Man. It was theme art for the 'I, Robot' Theme of the festival and was installed at the there o'clock position on the pedestal on which the Man was mounted. It was part of a larger group exhibit at the man Pavilion that included 12 'Burnbot' sculptures that were mounted on the upper tier of the cogwheel that comprises the Man's 'base', and 4 panels that were mounted in niches in the pedestal on which the man stood.