Corporate Stewardship Series

In the not too distant future with the world’s human population exceeding 12 billion, a planet ravaged by the effects of global warming, arable land, clean drinking water, natural resources have all been severely diminished as the labor-force suffers from chronic under-employment and unemployment impacting more than 35% of the entire human population.

These circumstances along with other factors have allowed the rise of twelve international corporations to assert control over all aspects of daily life world-wide. These corporations have become the de facto governance of all peoples. From the exploitation of the remaining natural resources to the dispensation of water and food stuffs, no aspect of daily life is outside of the direct control of this cabal.

In this context, a corporate executive takes his daughter to one of the few unexploited wooded-areas in North America. They see a nesting bird. The nest was inadvertently built incorporating a piece of found ephemera (see work entitled Genesis) – a piece of a Coca-Cola flyer. The corporate executive quickly realizes the marketing potential. The remaining animal population is quickly marshaled to serve and advance the corporate interests. First, animals are used to promote products (see work entitled Pelican Grief), and eventually the rapidly diminishing animal population is subjected to bio-engineering under the guise of stewardship and species preservation. This bio-engineering results in the ability of the corporations to genetically modify the host animals so that their off-spring are born with product labeling as a part of their very genetic and biological structure (see work entitled Giraffe). What were once preserves for the very few remaining animal, reptile, fish and bird species is now nothing more than incubators for billboards and placards of the flesh and blood of the ever diminishing biological diversity of the planet.

This premise is the plot line for a book entitled Novus Ordo Seclorum which I am currently drafting and illustrating.

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