Your dismissal of the "art talk" is surprising, given that the message is highly pertinent to the techno-expansionist worldview that seems popular among HNers:

Your dismissal of the "art talk" is surprising, given that the message is highly pertinent to the techno-expansionist worldview that seems popular among HNers: >While mankind turned to crudely built vessels in Biblical times, modern man would undoubtedly turn to modern machinery if faced with a similar catastrophe, which has been reflected in the project's cruise ship-like appearance. '[We are] about to enter the era of Mechanocene [the mechanized era], where machinery automation will be applied to production lines and where human beings are being replaced with machinery.' But will that be enough? If a modern day Ark would sink, what would happen? >Those are exactly the type of thoughts that Peng seeks to provoke with his project. 'This work is a metaphor to expose the collision between Mother Nature and the accelerated development of an industrialized civilization. If Noah's Ark, a symbol of mankind salvation, becomes just as a shipwreck, human and nonhuman were placed in an equal position. The human subject is losing his predominance as the supreme center of the world.' That is exactly why this cruise ship has been twisted and distorted; it is essentially transformed into a beached whale as well.