BENJAMIN JAFFE

Digital Art

Benjamin Jaffe is a practicing artist who teaches and works on Chicago’s South Side. In this series he is dealing with the affect of Entropy on Human Civilization. Huge glass and steel or concrete and granite structures seem to be permanent yet when we look at the ancient pyramids or ruins from previous civilizations we realize that even the sturdiest of constructions can only sustain so much before crumbling to the elements of time. Often what we assume to be permanent structures are in fact delicate and fragile in a geologic sense. These images are an attempt to understand human behavior. What is communicated is something on a more spiritual level. Although the landscapes are devoid of people, the subject is about human beings. What we subject one another to, what we are capable of withstanding and finally what we leave behind. The body of work is titled “Ruined”. The artworks center around the concept of modern ruins. The remnants of us, as they might appear to a future intrepid voyager.