Original Artwork | Acrylic on Canvas Board | 12" × 16"
She looks above it all. The question is whether she can actually see any of it.
See No Evil reimagines the familiar proverb for a world where looking away no longer requires closing our eyes. A bright blue virtual reality headset replaces the traditional hands over the face, allowing the woman to escape the physical world for one selected, filtered, and shaped by technology.
Her upward posture suggests confidence, even superiority, as though she has risen above whatever is happening around her. In reality, she has simply stopped looking. Even within her escape, she is not entirely in control of what she sees. Algorithms increasingly determine which images, ideas, and versions of reality reach us, creating worlds that can feel expansive while quietly becoming smaller.
The painting is one of three works in A.LaB's See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil series, which reimagines the ancient proverb for modern life. Across the series, three women confront different forms of disengagement: escaping reality through technology, becoming trapped within an information bubble, and losing the ability to speak.
In See No Evil, technology offers the most convincing escape of all. The work asks what we might fail to notice when the virtual world becomes more comfortable, entertaining, or appealing than the one directly in front of us.
Original Artwork | Acrylic on Canvas Board | 12" × 16"
She looks above it all. The question is whether she can actually see any of it.
See No Evil reimagines the familiar proverb for a world where looking away no longer requires closing our eyes. A bright blue virtual reality headset replaces the traditional hands over the face, allowing the woman to escape the physical world for one selected, filtered, and shaped by technology.
Her upward posture suggests confidence, even superiority, as though she has risen above whatever is happening around her. In reality, she has simply stopped looking. Even within her escape, she is not entirely in control of what she sees. Algorithms increasingly determine which images, ideas, and versions of reality reach us, creating worlds that can feel expansive while quietly becoming smaller.
The painting is one of three works in A.LaB's See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil series, which reimagines the ancient proverb for modern life. Across the series, three women confront different forms of disengagement: escaping reality through technology, becoming trapped within an information bubble, and losing the ability to speak.
In See No Evil, technology offers the most convincing escape of all. The work asks what we might fail to notice when the virtual world becomes more comfortable, entertaining, or appealing than the one directly in front of us.
