Link 1. Jan Bresser made during our experiment EGOproject in the University of Amsterdam a beautiful painting "The Last Judgement" in which he pictures the downfall of our western civilization.

 

 

The painting, oil on canvas, is 180 x 270 cm. Its is made at the end of the sixties. Jan Bresser was also participating with my EGOproject in 1969. Saturday 25 September 1999 I visited Jan in his atelier, which is built in a houseboat. He gave me a reproduction of the painting. I was very much impressed because he has painted it thirty years before, the same image as I have sketched in my paper on the website EGOproject: "Where is our Earth heading to in the next century?" On the lower part we see our planet Earth with snow-clad mountains and also an extinct volcano. With a sharp borderline a huge city is exploding. This symbolizes precisely what I think will happen. The trend of urbanization, emptying the rural areas and crowding of the world population in huge cites. The energy of the explosion will give birth to new life. When a huge meteorite hit 65 million years the Earth a great number of species did not survive the explosion (Dinosaurs). But immediately after the empty niches were filled with life. Even our Earth is a remnant of supernova, a huge star that exploded and creates all the heavy metals on our Earth. Jan painted all sort of animals. They are taken from all episodes of our geological history. The huge exploding sun is a good example of how energy can create all sort of forms (E=mc˛). So far my interpretation, on which Jan agreed, but he wrote me some additional information

In the upper panel is a man with a long beard serving as a bookend with his wise books (The Bible, I Tjing, Koran, Mao, Gilgamesh epic etc). Through the gift of the Word human mankind has evolved from the animals. The old man separates minus from plus. He has the perpetual motion of good en evil hidden under his caftan. On the rhythm of time are created two endless streams of angels and demons from his left and right sleeve. They attract each other in two endless spirals. When they meet each other, they will disappear in a black hole. Under his dress appears a umbilical cord from, with a downward and upward stream of animals who are eating each other, and which are branching in the egg of God in an endless muddle.

Below the painting is written: The Last Judgment and two data 4-1-1943 en 12-09-2012. These data symbolizes the space of time in which the Lord's Last Supper of the consumption society has been taken place. The first data is his birthday and the last is founded on the time scale of the Maya's. It is the day, according their calendar that will end the filth sun with a worldwide catastrophe.

Jan Bresser gave the permission to print his painting. (Unfortunately the photo editor has not copied all the details of the painting).