All for Baby

The story:
The baby in this painting reaches up to her future as she reaches for the little mutated animals on the mobile that sparkle prettily. Toxins have left only mutated creatures outside. Her caretaker mother or sister or lady in waiting looks on. The caretaker's head has large wing-like things growing out of it. The baby has little buds on her head that will grow into these appendages as she matures. These are receivers. They download messages straight to the brain. The tower off in the distance has UNIVIEW written on it, and a corporate looking logo on top. The logo has the same shape as the things on the caretaker's head. The wings on the little roach-like bug the kitten is sniffing are also shaped like the caretaker's head and the logo. The mobile has the decorative word UNIVIEW running up the stand it rests on. It has a thing with little lights at the top of it that look like eyes looking at the baby. The other towers in the distance have the same kind of eyes looking over the city down below. It's all UNIVIEW. Maybe even the adult cat is UNIVIEW. He seems to look at the baby very intently, like a spy. The baby has a satin headboard with a little crown embossed in it. The caretaker wears rich fabric and fur and jewels. This is the privileged class, maybe even nobility, and this is as good as it gets. The caretaker looks placid though a little menacing. She is used to this life. The baby is new to it so she is not so sure about it. Both are made out of plastic. You have to be to survive here.

The underlying meaning:
This painting is about a future in which even the ruling class cannot isolate itself from the effects of environmental destruction. They are controlled and physically warped and have to look at a scorched earth around them. It's also about the public being brainwashed by an all seeing, all knowing big brother type of entity so that everyone shares the same view of things, the uniview. It is about a world where media, government and corporations have merged into one. UNIVIEW doles out the news, controls manufacturing and trade, and owns the government.