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Worlds In Collision

6/1/2020

Some months ago, I began making notes for a new novel, a science fiction story about a scientist who predicts the end of humankind. In the novel, the scientist publishes a paper outlining characteristics of homo sapiens he feels will lead to its own extinction. Here are the contents of those notes:

Homo sapiens are prone to reject diversity, and prone to perceive variances as inferiorities.
Will acquiesce to behavioral changes only after near catastrophic environmental, social, or economic stress.
Are easily deceived, easily self-deceived, and are prone to seek external scapegoats rather than acknowledge their credulity.
Are easily distracted.
Are susceptible to addiction.

And then because this was intended as science fiction …

6. Are unable to tolerate naturally occurring or artificial radiation variance.
7. Have no mechanism for natural selection to overcome these disadvantages.

Like so many story ideas I’ve entertained, this one remains to be written.

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Curtis Hendricks

All my life I have had to learn to do things differently. To see the world differently.

Art attracted me from the beginning. Almost every home in the tiny farming village where I grew up had DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ on the wall. I would come across modern abstract art in magazines and be absolutely fascinated by the colors and techniques.

But there were no artists in my village. No one understood what modern art was. Or why it was. But there was an appreciation for photography.

I began shooting with a 1960 model Agfa rangefinder fixed-lens 35mm camera and learned to use darkroom techniques to finish my work. Graduating to a single lens reflex camera I worked primarily with Kodachrome. Digital photography opened a new world. The computer became the artboard I never had; the darkroom I could never afford. I discovered there would never be a camera or a lens that could capture what I saw in my head – that, I had to learn to create on my own.

I use the photograph the same way a painter uses a charcoal sketch – as a starting place. I squeeze out the unseen hiding between the pixels; the angels, the demons of my own imagination.

Light. Color. Darkness. Perspective. Introversion. Mystery. Love.

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Worlds In Collision

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