Bio-mechanical harvesting of human energy in a scientific concept being explored by the government. Where the machine meets man and Borg is born. The possible need to “exercise” to have the machine operate. Thus a symbiotic relationship is born. In order for the machine to operate it requires the operation of the body. Thus a true, qua symbiotic/authentic, relationship is formed. Both parties are codependent and the result is a qualitative leap for both components. Together, they transform into the Other. That one in the future, who through Vision draws us towards it. The force of temporal mental magnetism directed towards the future. One artistic depiction of this is Dan Verkys “Goddess of War” in which a serene woman is the gravitational center of a all seeing death machine, for it is the human gravitas which is simultaneously the emenating life center and enhanced agent. What is special about Dan Verkys' image is that it illuminates the way that we are the incarnation of Kali and that the vehicle of this incarnation is the machine. Think of the godly destruction caused by a RPG hitting a single human, it is utter. Only the Gods and Hero's of legend have wielded that power, and now it is ours. Thanks to our 'symbiotic' relationship with the machine. Another representationalist of this phenomena is HR Giger. Both of these artists who represent the 'Biomech' style both tend towards a darker recreation of the phenomena of bio-mechanics. In Verkys' work there is often represented goat skulls and a general 'flavor' of the anger, misery, anguish etc. Also in Giger one gets the predatory, the violent, victimized etc.
All of these are valid interpretations of the phenomena of bio-mechanics. The relationship between humans and the machine can be parasitical as opposed to symbiotic. It may seem or even be the case that the machine is 'raping' us in a 'satanic' way. Nonetheless, the possibility remains that our relationship with the machine may be symbiotic, like that between some cultural bacteria and some all efficient machine. That is, the possibility of a bio-mechnical stylized Alex Grey exists. Think now of the development from the 'Matrix' and 'Avatar.' What happens is that people move from being merged with the Machine to with the Planet. The flavor of the development is that of from sour to sweet. With Alex Grey you have a mystical representation of the human and its relationship to the planet in his painting “Gaia.” On the left side of the painting you have a peaceful relationship between the human and the planet. The problem is that it is a romantic recreation of the Paradise Lost. What would be more artistic in Artua's sense of the word, that is, distasteful, is a convergence of Grey's visionary mysticism and Verkys' 7 Giger's bio-mechanics. This would look like the empowerment of man to God-like levels through the medium of the machine. The human could remain in any form from bodily to psychicley and the machine in any form from mechanics to programing. A visionary embodiment of man into the machine and of the machine into man.
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