Written in a hybrid voice -part human, part machine- this essay explores Auguste Rodin's Walking Man as the hinge between the material and the immaterial, between apocalypse and transfiguration.
Saint John the Baptist vs. the Antichrist reads our present fascination with artificial intelligence through the lens of myth and sculpture, proposing that the true task of art today is neither fear nor mastery but attunement: to walk consciously through transformation, keeping the human imagination -and its infinite capacity for renewal- at the center.
From Michelangelo's unfinished slaves to Joseph Beuys' social sculpture, from the techno-eschatology of Nick Bostrom to the collaborative intelligence of AI, the essay traces a single continuity of gesture -the human capacity to listen, shape, and release.
