“At the touch of my finger, the breath of mankind begins.”
After The Creation of Adam

Is it the Creator who creates humanity,
or humanity that creates
the idea that the Creator creates humanity?

Theological creation.
Physiological climax.
“Creation”
may not point toward the other,
but toward a masturbatory expansion
of the universe of the self.

The language of the Creator
sounds like something spoken
by a being alone,
imagining its own omnipotence,
speaking only to itself.

In Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam,
what matters most
is neither the Creator nor humanity,
but the small gap
between two fingers
that never quite touch.

Within that gap
are born life, power, desire,
and the sensation
of having once been created.

Perhaps
what is being experienced
is a miniature form
of “becoming the Creator”;
or perhaps it is only
the repeated reenactment
of a hallucination engineered by consciousness
to prevent its own collapse.

When both Creator and humanity are absent,
what remains
are severed hands,
metal frames,
cables,
and electric current.

The touch that once created life
is rewritten
as a command
that activates pleasure.

“At last,
someone has given me meaning.”

The moment is mistaken
for absolute presence;
yet in fact
it is a hallucination
precisely generated by the brain.

Pleasure does not reveal truth.
It merely
suspends the question.

To have been created
may itself
be an illusion.

Masturbation
is a condition in which desire
no longer requires an other.
Pleasure returns to itself,
forming
a closed circuit.

Creation by the Creator
functions similarly in myth:
no response required,
no other needed,
“let there be—and there is.”

Once,
humanity connected to the Creator
through prayer and ritual;
now,
humanity connects to machines
through plugs, power supplies, and buttons.

Dionysus no longer arrives
through wine and revelry,
but through voltage, motors,
and vibrational frequencies.

No partner required.
No world required.
With a single movement of the finger,
the universe begins
to operate
for its own pleasure.

A mode of creation
defined by
absolute narcissism
and absolute sovereignty.

When desire is outsourced to machines,
who are we becoming?

Are we imitating the Creator,
or endlessly manufacturing
the illusion of the Creator?

What is the Creator transmitting?
And what, in turn,
are we transmitting
to ourselves?










Materials: Sex machines, silicone casts of hands (after Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam) , Image Study

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