Under Conspiracy Spell Abstract Digital Painting

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Published on April 18, 2022 2:31:19 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crztfdyy0ms

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My eighth painting, ‘Under Conspiracy Spell, ’ deals with feelings of paranoia, distrust and fear induced by relentless conspiracy theories spread on the web like a digital wildfire.
During Trump’s presidency marked by lies and alternate universe ‘truths, ’ many Americans embraced dangerous conspiratorial beliefs, from QAnon, distrust of news media, science and vaccines to coronavirus denial. And just like the contagious coronavirus spread through the world, these conspiratorial infectious ideas spread to other countries in the world, causing intellectual havoc wherever they took roots and poisoning people’s minds. Dissuading people who fell under the spell of conspiracy theories is almost impossible.
Misinformation is thriving during pandemic-induced self-isolation and is enabled by unregulated social media platforms, mainly Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
On this fixed ‘diet’ of misinformation grew a digitally oriented network of people who replaced real-life relationships and experiences with digital screens. Often hidden behind false identities, they continue to spread lies, conspiracies, and misinformation between themselves without ever fat checking their findings and theories. Because of this, we have a sixth corona wave and live through the second year of the pandemic. People under the paranoid spell of conspiracies are pushing back against rules and procedures that would help us stop and end the pandemic. The more the virus jumps from host to host, the more it mutates and spikes its contagiousness. I hope that it will not become deadlier.