MY  artistic  urges  have  found  their  way  from  moving  images  to  monochromatic  machines.  -  AP

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Amos Poe - #1 - Robot - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #12 - Danza Piccolina - 16 x 12" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #5 - Lady Robot - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #18 - La Donna Egiziana - 16 x 12" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #105 - Ulysses - 72 x 48" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #15 - Marley - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

On  one  hand  I  was  painting  robots, on  the other  I  was  painting  humans; in  the  end  I'm  not  sure  which  they are  more  like. -AP

"We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines 
achieved self-consciousness, they 
became part of this design." 
-- DAN SIMMONS, Endymion

Amos Poe - #21 - Ms. Deren - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

There  is  a  fine  line  between  humans  and   robots.  -AP

"You just can't differentiate from a robot and the very best of humans." - ISAAC ASIMOV, I Robot

Amos Poe - #27 - Good Taste - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #56 - The Great Contender - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #118 - Czechmate - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Decades, if  not  a  century, of  Sci-Fi prophesies  that  the  future  will  include  a stage  of  evolution  in  which  humans  become  extinct  because  they  are incapable  of  surviving  their  own  entropy, and  in  their  place  cyborgs, humanoids  and  eventually  full-fledged  robots -- all  offspring  of  human  intellect -- will  survive, thrive  and  "procreate"... if  and  when  this  era  emerges, what  traits  and  features, if  any, will  resemble  robots'  maternal  and paternal  humans?... what  distinguishes  or  marries  them  here?... are  they  and  will  they  continue  to  be  masculine?  feminine?  or  neutral?  -  AP

"You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot." -- HOMER SIMPSON, The Simpsons

Amos Poe - #69 - His Dream Made of Verbs - 36 x 24" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #73 - Adam and Eve in Antartica - 30 x 24" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #47 - She Really Puts Lead in My Pencil - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Painting  is  like  programming  as  it  places emotion  into  an  otherwise  material  void. The  robots  first  appeared  in  my  dreams, recalled  as  abstract  and  figurative  shapes, and  later  relocated  into  reality  as  primitive  beings  in  an  abstract  world  of  black, white, and  grays.  -  AP

"The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... 
it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason 
I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man." 
-- MAX FRISCH, Homo Faber: A Report

Amos Poe - #113 - Robot with Camoflage Shirt - 18 x 14" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #110 - A Spaniard in the Works - 18 x 14" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #133 - Two Men - 16 x 12" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #127 - A Woman for All Seasons - 40 x 30" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #120 - Like The Fishermen Do - 14 x 18" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #106 - Is You Is or Is You Ain't - 18 x 14" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

While  being  birthed  by  manufacturing  and  having  a  computational  core  could  in  principle  make  robots  all  the  same, they  are  also  by  nature  of  being  programmable, quite  possibly  always  different

"At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work." 
-- ROD GRUPEN, Discover Magazine, June 2008

Amos Poe - #65 - Loretta's Boogie - 36 x 24" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2012

Amos Poe - #126 - Your Own Personal Jesus - 40 x 30" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #128 - Sunburn - 12 x 9" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013

Amos Poe - #122 - Great Expectation - 12 x 6" - Acrylic on Canvas - ©2013