Maarten Vanden Eynde

We Made It! (2024), Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, NO (photo: Maarten Vanden Eynde)

We Made It! (2024), Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, NO (photo: Maarten Vanden Eynde)

We Made It! is a perfect symmetrical stone tool in which you see a vaguely mirrored reflection of yourself. With some help from digital digits and modern 3D scanning and printing technologies, humanity finally achieved symbolic perfection. All four quarters of the bronze copy of a stone tool are the same, like a score repeated quadrophonically. The work marks the beginning of the evolution of external memory devices, which started about 3 million years ago with the first stone tools, and at the same time, the end of that evolution as we are on the verge of being able to internalize memory extensions through DNA computing and implantable wetware computers.