In this collage titled A Path of Progress? I sought to put into question if our ‘progress’ really is helping us move forward. Located in the center of the right panel, the frozen lake depicts figures skating and a human struggling to stay afloat in the broken area of the lake. When looking at this painting Bridle’s A New dark age came to mind. In A new Dark Age James Bridle states the importance of technological literacy. “Over the last century, technological acceleration has transformed our planet, our societies, and ourselves, but it has failed to transform our understanding of these things.” Our technology has taken large strides forward, yet our understanding of ourselves in accordance with these new technologies have not progressed. Bridle reiterates this point and says this lack of technological literacy allows for exploitation, “If we do not understand how complex technologies function, how systems of technologies interconnect, and how systems interact, then we are powerless within them, and their potential is more easily captured by selfish elites and inhuman corporations.” This lack of understanding of our network, network is the composition of humans and our machine, allows for people to take advantage of this gap of understanding. This has allowed for the exploitation of humans for capitalist means, rendering us into consumers, again think of Han, into Neoliberal Guinea Pigs. Bridle argues that a lack of technological literacy feeds into our own ignorance and allows for exploitation, ultimately resulting in a loss of agency. In order to depict this kind of progress and exploitation in my collage, I chose to use boats; additionally, I chose to use Jan van Eyck’s painting called The Last Judgment. I cut out the small figures and placed them along the hulls of each of the boats. I did this with Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness in mind. The steamboat in Heart of Darkness was a symbol of colonization and the ‘progress’ of Africa, but at what coast did it take? The figures that I cut out from Eyck’s Last Judgment Painting are meant to represent the tribes people who were killed during the Colonization of the Congo by the Belgium Kingdom. The figures attempting to climb back on the boat represent the common people who came at the expense of progress, the ones who were merely tools for exploitation. Then a little to the left I choose to use paintings by Edvard Munch, Joos Van Craesbeeck where the hole in the ice is. I chose to use these two paintings to depict the utter terror it will be to drown. Additionally, I chose to use Picasso’s The Blue Room to evoke the somber emotions that stem from knowing where our current path may lead us. Our fall will come and eventually we will see that our progress has left us with a broken world. A world where we have depleted it of its resources, making us question whether this was really a path of progress?