The Twelve Nights of Christmas, Night Seven (New Year’s Eve): DEA (Data Encryption Algorithm) ex machine

DEA (Data Encryption Algorithm) ex machina – one of the strange aspects about art is that it can be very specifically “about” something, yet address it in a way that common language would not. I worked on this drawing waiting for the New Year to arrive in Central Europe and the Eastern US. Interestingly the term “common language” also refers to lingua franca, a language systematically used for communication between two (or more) groups not sharing a mother tongue whereas I used it to express the idea of non-artistic, every day communication using words.