Daniel believes humanity has arrived at a point where it is bound to lose itself in communication and technological prosperity. With this concept he composes paintings that show how humanity and society are fading the border between the real and the surreal; a modern renaissance wherein he reinvents the human form as a metaphor of the current state of mind.

Humanity's urge to move forward is prominent. "Standing still = moving backwards" is a common phrase. The current technology gives us the possibility to make huge leaps forward. Everything is connected: internet, social media, and mobile phones. People indulge their selves in this mass hysteria where individualism is lost to a certain degree, despite the everlasting keenness on privacy. Next to these communicational aids, a lot of experimentation occurs in many 'technological' fields, for instance the medical field. Cloning, organ harvesting, or even the reintegration of body parts on a damaged body, medicines or vaccines of which the long term effects are unknown or merely a vague guess. A quote from Roger Kimball from an article in the New Criterion:

" When we look back over the course of technological development, especially in the last couple hundred years, it is easy to be a technological optimist. Science and technology have brought us so many extraordinary advances that one is tempted to close one's eyes take a leap of faith when it comes to technology. No doubt science and technology have brought us many destructive things, but who except the hermits among us would willing do without the conveniences--including life-saving conveniences--they have bequeathed us? It is impossible, I think, for any rational person to say "No" to science and technology. The benefits are simply too compelling." (, p.)

This leaves us to a society where moving forward is inevitable. Some might consider it as a natural process, but where does it end? When the world ends with WOMD due to some communicational error, or when some incurable virus comes into being? Those thought are quite common amongst people, thoughts that create a duality, best described in this quote:

" There are two dangers. One is the danger of technophobia: retreating from science and technology because of the moral enormities it makes possible. The other, more prevalent danger, is technophilia, best summed up in the belief that "if it can be done, it may be done. There are many things that we can do that we ought not do. As science and technology develop, we find ourselves wielding ever greater power. The dark side of power is the temptation to forget its limitation. Lord Acton was right to warn that "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." None of us, of course, really commands absolute power. Our mortality assures that for all of us--rich and poor, brilliant and obscure--life will end in the absolute weakness of death. " (p.)

A duality between on the one hand the possibility to cheat death, and on the other hand the craving to be alive just for the sake of existence. It is a mental play of push-and-pull, a need to create and at the same time withdraw from it.

Daniel works with the idea that humanity is growing as a whole as well as individualistically, as a natural phenomenon that embraces random cellular growth and mutation, both as a means to discover fault and error and as a means to evolve into a complicated evolutionary design… something that tears and rips apart, but also creates beauty and life in the process.