"Pulse" contains a print of binary language or code for modern technology with a superimposed red lineal pulse similar to the readings of a Richter scale measuring the seismic activity of an earthquake, or as a representation of a condition of crisis. View detail. At the bottom, are painted hands whose position resembles that found in pre-historic cave paintings. The hands show the internal structure of bones--like an x-ray negative--as they are visible to the eyes of technology. This represents a group of people in a pre-technological society in the process of being scrutinized by modern technology. This is a comment on our paradoxical age when knowledge, like that of radiation, is both an aid as well as a cause of harm and death.

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