Eric Shanes’ Control Centre dissects the evolving power dynamic between humanity and emergent artificial intelligence. The work presents a commanding digital entity—its form a lattice of pulsating electricity, arms outstretched not in benediction but in silent authority. 
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Shanes' probes the blurred boundary between victim and perpetrator in our algorithmic age. Does this sentient system dominate its human subjects, or merely reflect our own systems of influence? Control Centre suggests a more disquieting truth—that we’re complicit in building the very architectures that may one day supersede us. The painting challenges not just who holds power, but whether the distinction between master and servant remains meaningful at all.