Modern Moloch
43 x 28.5 inches
Acrylic and Aerosol Paint on Premium Cotton
From Cavier’s “Land of Paradise and Hell” exhibition, Modern Moloch reimagines the ancient pagan deity, to whom child sacrifice was offered. In the acclaimed book “Howl” by Alan Ginsberg, he devotes several stanzas that conjure Moloch as a metaphor for capitalism and the despair in modernity.
“Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!” - Allen Ginsberg
43 x 28.5 inches
Acrylic and Aerosol Paint on Premium Cotton
From Cavier’s “Land of Paradise and Hell” exhibition, Modern Moloch reimagines the ancient pagan deity, to whom child sacrifice was offered. In the acclaimed book “Howl” by Alan Ginsberg, he devotes several stanzas that conjure Moloch as a metaphor for capitalism and the despair in modernity.
“Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!” - Allen Ginsberg
43 x 28.5 inches
Acrylic and Aerosol Paint on Premium Cotton
From Cavier’s “Land of Paradise and Hell” exhibition, Modern Moloch reimagines the ancient pagan deity, to whom child sacrifice was offered. In the acclaimed book “Howl” by Alan Ginsberg, he devotes several stanzas that conjure Moloch as a metaphor for capitalism and the despair in modernity.
“Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!” - Allen Ginsberg