Great detail. Very striking image.

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We built this city
On top of a grave

Thank you, kind sir.

Very welcome

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We built this city
On top of a grave

Thanks man!

Why is it that imagery of destruction and is so memorable and fascinating, even while it seems alien and (with sufficient hand-waving away and denial) abhorrent to us?

I don't know, but this piece of art must be hitting the same brain regions as the footage of nuclear explosions.

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Curse at me. Call me wrath, rat, wraith, wratts evermore.
Call me four times, and devil may knock on your door.

That this image hits the same nerve as the nuclear explosions means that you've had this kind of event happen to you. It's instantly recognizable. Most of the people who've seen this drawing in person think it's idle abstract expressionism, but the few who recognize it know exactly what it is.

I think that the abhorrence is the natural human reaction to actual devastation and that maybe the fascination is an auto-immune function. Recognize what destruction is real and that it is terrible, but take it in and don't confuse any of it with what you see in Cloverfield (or insert the name of any big-budget feaux apocalyptic movie).

At least, that's what i'd like to think.

Thanks very much for coming back. I always appreciate the discourse you bring to the artwork here.

Gotta excuse the very short form of post I am using here:

Yes!