Global flood…. There are forty days and forty nights of divine punishment for the moral fall of mankind ….
Noah is the descendant of Adam in the tenth generation, the continuer of the human race, the ancestor of all the peoples of the world …. Contemporaries laughed at him, over his righteousness and his words about the waters of the Flood. They asked why in this believe? They did not understand what to do about it? Unlike Abraham, who prayed to the Creator to save the inhabitants of Sodom, Noah did not pray to God for the salvation of mankind, but he begged humanity to repent. He saw the future, and grew trees to build the ark ….
The ark was built for one hundred and twenty years … The Creator gave people time to repent of their sins. Noah and his wife went up into the ark, and three sons and wives were with them. They took with them a pair of animals and birds of every kind. They spent twelve months in the ark in cares for animals all days and nights. This ministry has its own symbols: a raven, a dove, an olive leaf from the Olives Mount in Jerusalem …. There is a rainbow as a sign of the divine Covenant, as a contract between Noah and the Creator for the salvation of mankind from flesh and blood …
The artist philosophically comprehends the biblical text. He presents on the picture a virtual reality, a virtual Noah and a virtual ark …. This is a modern world reality shifted into another plane. Mankind has entered in a different reality. All information about the world is recorded on files. The artist tells to the world the truth that is hidden from the eyes. Humanity has reached another stage of development, and it will have to go through another Flood. Noah reminds us of a possible system crash, cleaning up information, deleting files. The changed world should be ready for a different scenario of collapse …. There is water everywhere with the details of a flooded computer. The face of Noah barely glimpses through the water column are symbolizing the negative millennial experience of mankind. It is similar to the face of the scientist-naturalist of past eras.
The rainbow shell surrounding Noah is his inner ark. He tries to hide in it the most valuable thing. It is the information. It is knowledge accumulated by the humanity. But we can not be saved, the flood waters were already inside the rainbow armor-ark.
The artist reminds us that the Internet space that brought humanity together has established its own rules. People flooded with digital information streams. They forgot how to speak and listen. They can not hear each other. The man plunged into virtual reality and remained alone with himself. Now he can only be saved by his inner, own Noah. Everyone has his own ark. This is a flash drive.
Everyone has his choice, what part of the information he will take with him …. There are material, spiritual or virtual reality, but remains only what is required for the further development of mankind. Unnecessary will be removed, no matter how hard we try to keep it. Centuries pass, the world and its values change, but the shell of Noah is a rainbow, a sign of the divine covenant and the blessing of Noah by the Creator leave us hope ….
