I
painted this in 1998. I had been reading about the RFID chip as my topic for an editorial illustration
school assignment
I
have followed the progress of the Bio Chip over the past eleven years. Interestingly, everything I read
about it in 1998 has come true, and the Bio Chip is in widespread use today. It exists in so many forms: chipping to locate
lost pets, smart chips in credit cards, hand scans allowing one access to get into Sea World, implants injected into your
arm by your favorite night club. The implementations of the RFID chip continues to grow with great speed, providing us with
ever faster, time saving conveniences.
All good things have an equal and opposite possible use. So what’s
the flip side?
This
painting is packed with symbols. The fortune teller is revealing the future. She bears the chip implant in her forehead. The
pyramid with the all-seeing-eye represents the New World Order /one world government to come. In the shadows
are a syringe (for chip injection), handcuffs, representing the potential of population enslavement via
this tracking device, and a Bible ( there are some who believe the RFID chip is the talked about “Mark of the Beast.”)
