In this work the artist has appropriated from and manipulated the Sebastian Ricci painting, ‘The Resurrection’ (1716). The artist’s process of distorting religious and familiar historical art symbolises the impact of the enlightenment, the response of romanticism and the sublime and recently the technological digital revolution and the contemporary sublime. The stages of the archetype of the apocalypse, judgement, revelation, punishment and rebirth are represented in this work. The fragmented and fractured Baroque religious painting is a metaphor for the artist’s encounter with the archetype of the apocalypse where reality shifts and past beliefs are necessarily reframed. The content and subject matter of the original painting are relevant to the artist’s expression of this existential experience, also perceived as a collective event.

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