Visual Arts Archives - Herbert R. Sim

Digital Nirvana: The Search for Enlightenment in Synthetic Bliss

November 1, 2025

In my illustration, I feature the 'Upload Ritual', where a digital guru guides a female cyborg towards digital transcendence, into digital nirvana, finding enlightenment in synthetic bliss. In the evol...

“Prepare the Way of the Lord”: A Reflection on the Rapture, the Feast of Trumpets, and the Triumph of the Cross

September 14, 2025

Visual Arts

In my illustration above, I feature seven angels blowing on long silver trumpets above the skyline of Jerusalem (with the temple mount), the graves below shimmer as souls rise upward in light. On this ...

Weather Modification Technologies: Science, Policy, and Controversy

August 11, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

Above is my illustration of a Cloud Seeding Aircraft in Flight, showcasing a small turboprop aircraft releasing silver-iodide flares beneath a storm cloud. Weather modification has fascinated humanity ...

Neural Sharing and the Death of Privacy

June 6, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration above, featuring 'surveillance dystopia', with a vast AI eye 👁️⃤ composed of circuitry watching over a city of people linked by neural lines. In the last decade, brain-computer interf...

Project Blue Beam Isn’t Just a Conspiracy Anymore: Touchable Hologram Changes Everything

May 5, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

Above is my illustration featuring a woman caressing the face of a hologram of her husband standing in her futuristic living room, in a condominium in a metropolitan city. The classic trope of science ...

Children Are Safe in Jesus Christ’s Arms

April 20, 2025

Visual Arts

Today is Easter Sunday! Easter is a celebration of life, resurrection, and hope, and there is no better way to reflect on its meaning than by remembering Jesus Christ’s tender love for children - that their i...

The Rise of Animal–Human Hybrids: Inside the Labs Blurring the Line Between Species

April 4, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration showcases animal-human hybrids displaying their superhuman attributes - super-speed, super-endurance, super-strength. Imagine a future where people don’t just overcome their biological ...

The Future of Skin for Robots: Toward Indistinguishable Human Clones

March 3, 2025

Opinion, Visual Arts

Above is my illustration, featuring a woman admiring the facial skin of her robot clone. They are in a futuristic laboratory. The boundary between biology and machinery is dissolving — not through code...