When looking at the pit, I saw that many animals of God’s creation were coming out of it. I posed to myself the question of if God made man, can what is man made also come out of the pit of God’s creations? Marsden Hartley’s Yliaster (Paracelsus) reminded me of the visuals we saw when learning about Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. As of right now, the volcano depicted by Hartley is risking the lives of 22 million people because people have seen ash being spewed from its top. I interpreted the big bang of light coming from it as the start of a new beginning. If the volcano were to erupt, this civilization would have to start over. The monk with the gun, as shown in Fransisco José de Goya y Lucientes’ Friar Pedro Shoots El Maragato as His Horse Runs Off, depicts violence from human to human, and it points to the man on horseback to also show violence from human to animal. Frederic Remington’s The Advance Guard, or The Military Sacrifice (The Ambush) depicts a man who has just been shot by a Sioux warrior as the other troops flee this ambush. I had the monk pointing to shoot the cowboy to show a person who follows the values of mindfulness and compassion being violent towards someone whose fellow troops abandoned to save themselves. The monk follows more community-based values while the cowboy follows a more individualistic mindset. But then again, should this be put in conversation with Lockwood’s idea that context matters? I attached the phone to the bottom to make it appear as though the screen was projecting this screen. Technology is another man-made object that drove us toward the Anthropocene. I added the image of a half robot half human, taken from Google, to touch on the topic of transhumanism. In Jeanette Winterson’s Ted Talk, Is humanity smart enough to survive itself?, she states, “I believe that humans have a strong future as a hybrid species as we start to merge with the biotechnology we're creating…And if we manage to upload consciousness, I think that the shift from the transhuman to the posthuman world will seem natural, an evolutionary necessity.” Winterson argues that mixing with machines is the way that humans will be able to survive the catastrophe that we created. If our phones and all the technology we have learned to rely on for little tasks every day remain hyper objects, things we are not able to understand,  then I think that the reality Winterson talks about comes closer.