Neuromancer Artwork - Take Your Word, Thief

This is an original artwork called 'Take Your Word, Thief', another piece inspired by William Gibsons 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer. I have become obsessed with trying to express the concepts in the novel visually - like Gentry attempting to conceive of the shape of the internet.

This artwork represents the visual hallucination experienced by the protagonist as he attempts to interpret an intangible flow of data - in this case the cracking of the I.C.E. (intrusion countermeasures electronics) around an AI construct using a bleeding edge IceBreaker program that he envisions as a huge black mirrored shark diving at terrific speed into the core of the AI.

"Take your word, thief." is said by Lady 3Jane Tessier Ashpool because the digital breaking of the AI must coincide with a physical element - the humming of three notes at a specific location and time. In an increasingly digital world, the value of physical interaction as security becomes ironically essential.

An old victorian lock is beyond the reach of an ethernet connection.

I hope you dig it.