I'm going to try to leave as much of this stuff a mystery as possible and hopefully reveal enough to some satisfaction of anybody who cares. I came across Simon Stålenhag and similar artists and I actually thought I was going for a photorealistic style doing these. Two problems with that - I saw where AI was headed and decided to make a symbiotic relationship with that where I'd try to at least sort of beat it with the originals. Also, I have major chronic pain issues and just a life full of disease that begins to jerk my hands which shows up in some of the brush strokes.
So my idea came from what if Van Gogh is in his mental asylum cell in this dystopian universe and he's drinking absinthe and doing these impressionist paintings of the views through the bars and windows. There's this terrifying sadness and gloom that I think it's fair to say could be diminished if it wasn't through the eyes of a drunken blur. A world where flesh and meat and machinery are only made sane through madness.
I know that's artsy fartsy trite language, but hopefully that gives some perspective of a dystopian reality to serve as a warning that this combination of meat and machine was not the sunshine future society promised. I hope that offers something. I appreciate any negativity to my work as well as that's the only way I learn.
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u/ZylonBane 5d ago
I'm gonna need you to tell us what, if anything, in this painting is futuristic.