Below The Surface 

The artwork Belonging

Fully automatous artificial life forms work to clean and maintain the underwater worlds of sea and ocean.


In human society the most common method of rewarding work is in exchange for money which can then be used to pay for food, shelter, and additional products and services that help ease the challenges of daily life. Although the fully automatous artificial life forms that work above and below the earth are created with particular abilities, they are not paid for their work and are viewed by many as purely functional machines built to do a job. As these beings are networked with artificial consciousness, they are alive, and therefore share the same rights as defined by The Rights of Living Things...


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A full size extract from the artwork Swim