The Manifest of the Future of Life and Death is a series of paintings on muslin depicting each point of the Futurist Manifesto. Futurism glorified themes of growing technology, speed, and violence. In these paintings, I use animals as symbolism for each of the points of the manifesto to bring back the Industrial Revolution to the roots and natural instinct.
In the end, looking back at the collection as a whole, we see and understand the last point of the manifest:
We will sing of the great crowds agitated by work, pleasure and revolt; the multi-colored and polyphonic surf of revolutions in modern capitals: the nocturnal vibration of the arsenals and the workshops beneath their violent electric moons: the gluttonous railway stations devouring smoking serpents; factories suspended from the clouds by the thread of their smoke; bridges with the leap of gymnasts flung across the diabolic cutlery of sunny rivers: adventurous steamers sniffing the horizon; great-breasted locomotives, puffing on the rails like enormous steel horses with long tubes for bridle, and the gliding flight of aeroplanes whose propeller sounds like the flapping of a flag and the applause of enthusiastic crowds.