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Full title: Robots in a Pine Forest - Bullet with Butterfly wings
Another new artwork which was released at the recent Comic Con!
This time inspired from Nier Automata. I really liked the idea of the robots imitating human behavior and I found this landscape from Ivan Shishkin from 1895 to be the perfect background and general inspiration for this little scenery.
In Shishkins work, originally there are 4 bears playing in the woods which I have replaced by 4 robots.
While the idea of robots playing on the trees like the bears do - was nice, the butterfly changed the whole piece dramatically.
I was actually in doubt if it would not distract too much from the original meaning, but then I decided it "should" lift the work to a complete new meaning and it makes the whole scene look as if it was always meant to look that way. This is the core of the hand-painted-Inceptionism as I envision it; to grab something that everyone knows and create a new surprising connection that bears also a new meaning to the viewer.
And if you want to see desktop-candy like this before anyone else, you could have your cake over at my Patreon page (link on top ), but you also can buy me a coffee over at Ko-Fi or get a print of this painting here: www.fantasio.shop/collections/…
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Omg I love this game and this illustration is incredible. Awesome!
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Your work is brilliant, but substituting the bears with robots is mildly said disturbing to me, especially in such a beautiful natural landscape.... Kinda wish it were only landscape. Your work remains incredible in that regard.
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Thanks for your comment, appreciated! I might add that without the context (Nier Automata) the robots do not make much sense, other than that I would not call them a substitute for the bears because the meaning has been radically altered because of the robots and the interaction with nature and gives food for thoughts on its own.
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Indeed, I am not familiar with the context so I only can see the work out of it. I called it substitute as in how the image speaks to me, so to say.... that's my thoughts. I feel alarmed by the destruction of Nature and the way the natural world is "substituted" by technology and artificial things in the minds of people, they don't give it a thought way too obsessed with their own products, which however can neither feed them nor last. So I suppose that made me interpret the painting in such a negative way. Call it my personal bias.
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I really appreciate these kind of discussions, so your thoughts on this matter are more than appreciated of course!
At the core I am totally with you! And even without the context of the game (which has an interesting stance about that matter) it also bears another meaning: What if robots would be the better humans? I refer to a posthuman vision here, but given we had fulfilled our mission to create a better version of ourselves that don't need much resources and don't pollute emissions as much as we do - would that not be better for nature and the earth in whole?
I sure tend to see things in a slight positive way, but that is why I gravitate so much towards posthumanism and am intrigued by the idea that humans are not the crown of evolution, but hopefully that what we are going to produce from here...
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I honestly wouldn't think so. I don't believe machines can be a substitute to any life form, not even humans, and I don't believe they can be "better" than one. Better in what? They can be better at certain tasks. But at life? At living? As living beings? They are not ones and never will be. Sure they can exist with less and exerting less impact on the environment, yes, but their existence would be pointless because they have no soul. Life finds purpose in experiencing things, in feeling, in living itself, even in the struggle for survival. Robots are not capable of any of that and I don't believe they ever could because they are not alive. The fundamental difference between the machine and the human is not the computing power, but the soul, and it cannot be reproduced or imitated by any technology. I mean.... I know some people don't see things like this and believe a machine can emulate personality (which is still not quite a soul). But that creeps me out because to me that's like to erase the very thing that makes Life alive, if you know what I mean. To believe who we are is just chemical reactions and synapses in the brain. It's just wrong, and in a manner of speaking, it's the end of Life.
I do not believe humans to be the crown of evolution. If anything, they are turning into a grand mistake.... The only way they can create a better version of themselves is by evolving their own species.... but they don't seem really keen on doing that currently.
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I would not say a posthuman lifeform would be better at anything than we are, but if there would be an artificial species that is able to maintain nature without exploiting it like we do, that lifeform has a much better chance to survive in the grand scheme of things. And if it is our goal to invent such a thing, our life has a meaning. I don't see this as a bad thing.
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Life is a meaning of itself. It doesn't need a goal to be fulfilled, it just needs to live. Only a living being can do that. That's why I find the fascination with machines over living beings to be scary. Because machines can never have any of the worth of a single living cell.
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I see that differently and many teenagers wandering around with suicidal tendencies do the same. If there is no goal, no purpose, what special meaning is there? Love, marriage, children, and then? For what? What is the deeper purpose of any of this?
I disagree, I mean, dogs and cats and animals as a whole need no purpose in life to live a fulfilled one. It is just not in their DNA. But that is the difference, I'd say no living human could do this for a very long time without getting sick. And our society is making us sick by forcing us to do things we do not like to do, to make a living and to live day by day in a rat race. For what? What is the sense?
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What you say about other animals here sounds quite arrogant. They can just enjoy life, and humans have forgotten how to. Guess it's why humans don't value the life of others anymore, because they fool themselves it has no "purpose" - not one they can understand anyway. While it is a purpose of its own. If you cannot enjoy life for its own sake, then I cannot teach you how to do it. But I can. And trust me, "love", marriage and children mean nothing at all to me. Living itself does. Feeling alive. I've been on the suicide line myself - and not because of not having "purpose", but because I never could just enjoy life, because my own body would not allow that for me. Now it does because I've made it so, and I just live and know the value of life itself, stripped of vain ambitions, illusions of "purpose" and all that self-important nonsense.
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It is not meant in an arrogant way, it is just that we humans have the consciousness and abilities to put everything in question + all the intellectual capabilities add to the problems that many people encounter. In that sense I believe that animals might have it better in the regard that they don't question life as we do.
Even this discussion is something animals would never engage with and I don't mean that in an arrogant way, it is just how it is.
My point is that it is just because of our very nature we have so much misery in life - which in turn adds to your sentiment about life and that it would be better to just enjoy every given day. I would also never put this feeling into question, it is an important asset. However, I believe there is a difference in our day-to-day life and the grand scheme of things.
We can also be happy with the thought that humanity is just a virus and the next ice-age will blow us away. But then again, this thought as all the others are pathetic if there would not be a larger goal. That goal can be anything and I'm not only referring to religion here. These questions have led to the evolution of mankind as we know it, because in our very nature we are hungry for knowledge. For many believing in a god has given them a purpose in life. But I rather put the status quo in question and want to know what else is there?
That is all.
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Be that as it may, but you humans need to learn respect for the other species and to stop assuming that none of what happens in your own heads and souls ever happens in the heads and souls of other animals. Because it does. And as a matter of fact you have no way to know how much they contemplate life because you do not understand their means of communication deeply enough, let alone be able to peer into their minds. You just cannot know and for that reason assuming - especially in a way that will depreciate their moral and spiritual worth - is just wrong. It may be that I ascribe meaning you never meant to your words, but generally humans tend to do that, consider themselves superior and think less of other animals. And that leads to a lot of atrocities because humans don't relate to someone they consider so inferior.
My sentiment for life is because I feel life itself is precious, in every form, in every glimpse and moment. Sadly, I discover many humans cannot feel it this way and cannot even fathom it when I try to explain.... (not saying you're one of them, but others certainly)
Perhaps that's what has been tormenting me the most, you say "mankind as we know it", but to me humanity feels completely alien, and the more time passes and the more I contemplate their ways, the more alien I feel them and their notions and understanding of things. I see a lot of flaws in that understanding. In their very way of thinking I see a lot of unfairness, a lot of wrongful assumptions.... a lot of illusions. A flaw of my own is the inability to understand that they cannot see things that to me are fairly obvious. At least.... they cannot see it as I do.
I'd rather not delve in the topic of religion. Yet all in all, everything I do is question the status quo with my own insane views, endlessly and in many ways and directions. More often than not, people don't like that about me.
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OK, agreed, I don't know how animals feel and communicate and just speak about what we all learn or think we know.
It is a very difficult topic and I think I understood your point of view and respect that very much too.
I believe I learned something new that helps to ask better questions, in that regard, thanks for the engaging discussion!
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Thank you for taking the time and being respectful. If I could contribute in some way and broaden your world a little bit, then I am glad.
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. Cool and funny ... I'm don't remember : at Shishkeen teddys was watch a butterfly too ??
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Thank you, and no, in the original painting there is no butterfly, so the inceptionism is working I guess
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Very gorgeous! NieR Automata is a favorite of mine <3
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You're welcome! Thanks for blessing my eyes with your art
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Here we have the Boreal mookbot in its natural habitats.
The mother goes off to forage while its three cubs blissfully play amongst the moss, logs and ferns.
Unbeknownst to them, a Squarenus Fanservicus has encroached on their territory.
Originally brought to the game world by Weaberian Wai-fu traders, the species wasted no time in establishing itself as the 'player character' of several biomes.
Unable to compete from this ruthless new threat, mookbots have been driven to the very edges of their former range.
Were it not for the Low-level protection act and Wildlife preserves, then these comically ineffective enemies would have followed the Green Koopa Troopa into extinction.
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I'm afraid to disagree, these are not twitchonian bots. Other than that, the depiction is very close to the source and thanks for the entertaining write-up, very much appreciated
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Welcome to deviantart. You are very eager to comment with 103 comments in 14 days. Keep it up and one day you will reach my level with 16.523 comments, the force seems strong with you!
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I adore the art design of this game and I'm often tempted to buy it in the store, but I must say after playing the demo I can't say I'm riveted by the gameplay at all.
That said, I think your artwork looks amazing!
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Hi Erik, thanks for your comment! I have to admit I also did not play it yet, but if I have the time and don't had to do painting of things I don't read play or watch (for a living), this one would be on my list for sure. And be it just because of its rad genre-mix. And the 26 endings of course
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Amazing job. Super inspiring. Would you please check out my site?
www.deviantart.com/charlaen
I'd appreciate any feedback
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Very nicely done! I really like how you portrayed the smaller robots, they seem so curious ^^
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thank you very much, glad you think so!
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Her name is 2B from a game called Nier Automata.
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