The Death of the Internet, 2025

Technology SuperCycle

Oil on canvas – 175 x 105 cm | 68.9 x 41.3 inches

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The Death of the Internet is part of my Technology Supercycle series and one of my most personal reflections on the moment we are living through.

I belong to the generation that witnessed the birth of the Internet—when it represented open access, shared knowledge, and the promise of human connection across borders. Decades later, I now find myself witnessing its decline. That dream has eroded into a landscape of synthetic data, algorithmic noise, and an inability to distinguish truth from fabrication. In this state of epistemic collapse, the original promises of the digital age feel impossible to sustain.

This painting presents that crisis as a contemporary vanitas. A male figure, rendered with classical technique and dramatic chiaroscuro, lies stretched across a fractured cliff. His body leans over two prophetic texts—The Singularity Is Near and Future Shock—now relics of a techno-futurism that failed to account for the limits of human perception.

Beside him, a broken humanoid mask suggests the fragmentation of identity in a culture shaped by artificial systems. Through composition, symbolism, and technical precision, this piece meditates on the cultural exhaustion of the digital era—and on the slow collapse of meaning in a world saturated with artificial signals.

The Technology SuperCycle (series)

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