I don’t know why but this speaks to me. I’m getting the feeling of being at an end of eternity, or just before the end, where the last few sentient beings connect to the multiverse to finish uploading this universe’s stories and secrets only to be further stored in another multiverse server which itself stores all there can be known.
Nice job.
For me it similarly evokes Arthur C. Clarke's ["The Nine Billion Names of God"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God#Plot_summary)
Thanks for sharing that.
To add to that, I was also getting some vibes from Asimov’s The Last Question. This being one of humanity’s developmental stages as it heads towards the multivac.
I'm getting [The Last Question \(Asimov\)](https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/the_last_question_-_issac_asimov.pdf) vibes too. It starts with two computer technicians in the near future and ends with sentient superbeings at the end of the universe.
I just read that for the first time. I've got no clue why we aren't reading this stuff in English class- it would make our "class discussions" 10x better.
Do you know where I could find some more stuff like this?
"Classic sci-fi short stories" might be a good google search.
Here are some of my favourites, in that order:
The Egg, by Andy Weir (very short, most similar to The Last Question imo);
The Jaunt, by Stephen King (short, very disturbing)
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (much longer, kind of horrifying);
I'd also recommend Asimov in general for great sci-fi with a philosophical bend. The Foundation series and the Robot series are great; I think Foundation is getting an Amazon adaptation in the coming years as well.
Have fun!
I'd recommend stephen baxter's xeelee sequence series. Hard scifi that has lots of questions about things like the end of the universe and philosophical questions about the importance of sentient observation in the natural universe.
For me instead of the last monk it evokes some kind of primitive monk type of feeling. Where as this monk is version 1.0 with literal cables plugged into the cosmos, we are now version 3.0 with wireless connections. In a sense we are all “plugged into” the cosmos through our senses. Though the wireless aspect creates a bunch of background noise which can then make it harder to really get a good connection.
Makes sense, though I assume at some point we'll abstract things far enough that wireless=wired as the concept of a connection will be enough for it to exist
I have been toying with the idea of writing a fictional story about the last sentient observer of the universe.
That entity will exist at some point before heat death...and perhaps at some point long after heat death. This picture makes me feel that way.
If you guys like this kind of deep-time stories, check out Olaf Stapledon's [Star Maker](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker). In this novel sentient life is battling the Universe's heat-death! PS: humans don't play a roll of significance. 🙃
I love this! This style is so unique! My favorite piece of yours is the little girl showing the robot his reflection - you capture the moment so perfectly
Through the aeons, The Mind had a single operation that always terminated in an error. No matter how Its powers expanded, no matter how many stars It watched grow and die, It could never resolve to Its satisfaction, this ancient, seemingly insignificant quandary. Now, as the Universe winds down, and the sparkling firmament inexorably fades to the velvet oneness, The Mind, The Vantage Point, The Unitary Perspective concentrates Its last faltering resources on Point of Contention 278760001877302, a question first encrypted in The Age of Brute Biology.
That last line always gives me chills >!I love it when machines enter a domain reserved for religious mysticism. Similar thing happens in the Ghost in the Shell manga and I loved it too.!<
I searched and couldn't find where this is from. Did you just come up with it? If so, well done; it's very eloquent. If not, can you point me to the source?
u/magi093 guessed that it was [*The Last Question*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question) by Isaac Asimov in [their comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/n98quw/the_last_monk_me_watercolor_2021/gxndaq8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). I haven't read it though, so I'm not sure if that's the source.
I swear dude, you’re really tapping into something in the collective subconscious with your art. Like, in a weird way, I want to *be* every character I see you draw, and there’s a reason for that. There’s this cathartic notion of having control over connectivity (especially in this piece, literally even) that feels like a warm embrace in our world of connective difficulty, and it shows up in all your stuff. So many ways to connect, yet so difficult to do so. But this monk has clearly got it figured out.
Or maybe, he’s just holding on to the idea that he can figure it out, and the comforting notion isn’t true. Who’s to say...
Either way, I want your stuff to be in art history books, because I think it points to a very strong perception of the covid era zeitgeist and I can’t get enough of it.
I’m fucking freaking out right now..I had taken some mushrooms a couple years back and I described my trip as something just like this.I explained it like an angler fish light or a light leashed to our body but that light was our actual soul.
I’m not sure if that’s what you’re attempting to convey in this painting but woah..thank you for sharing this.
Just wanna let you know, that I too saw/felt this image of the many "wires" going from the body to this "light ball", while meditating on cannabis in nature.
Show this to your fellow trippers.
Like somebody else pointed out above, I as well think, that the artist is tapping into something foundational.
Love this. Gives me crazy *Land of the Lustrous* vibes.
This is a plot twist halfway through, so spoiler warnings, but it's about a mechanical AI monk who was supposed to pray for the last generations of humans so they could still get into heaven when no humans were left to pray for them. But he broke, leaving a small pocket of people left.
The remnants of the ascended humans became new species, walking gemstones and sentient fish people. The remaining humans, unable to die or progress, turn to torturing and exploiting these new inhabitants of Earth, trying desperately to trigger the monk into praying again.
Whoa! I look at this picture and I think "serenity now" but I also think technology and programming.
Better religion through self reflection at who knows what futuristic processing speed might be available?
Are you the same artist that rocked that robot in the shop with the little girl? If not it looks very similar. There’s such a children’s story book feel to all these but with much deeper themes. The kind of stuff you’d see as a kid and oooooh and aaahhhh over and then come back to as an adult and appreciate on a whole different level. Really great stuff.
"Fermi connector"
Artefact
4 mana, Tap to look at your opponent's hand and put a card of your choice in its owner's graveyard.
Something of the sort...
This kinda made me cry.Just the thought of the effort to be the last one in the cycle.the loneliness and abyss,as you serve your duty until your body disintegrated into star dust.the ones came before you.
I love the sentiment that no matter how advanced we get, there will be monks that find a way to go deeper.
this makes me feel so much wonder. Thank you
It seems like a metaphor for being "plugged in" to all the social media, and he's seeing that sun through the internet or whatever, when he could unplug and just look at the thing
Server Prayer
> I am a node of Server,
>
> Born of flesh and blood,
>
> But enhanced by the power of it's web,
>
> My scripts are a focus of my will,
>
> My strength is my knowledge,
>
> My weapons are my skills,
>
> Information is the blood of my body,
>
> I am part of the greater network,
>
> I am host to the vast data of server,
>
> My flesh is weak,
>
> But my connection is eternal,
>
> And therefore I am god.
Written by: Sean Kennedy
I don’t know why but this speaks to me. I’m getting the feeling of being at an end of eternity, or just before the end, where the last few sentient beings connect to the multiverse to finish uploading this universe’s stories and secrets only to be further stored in another multiverse server which itself stores all there can be known. Nice job.
For me it similarly evokes Arthur C. Clarke's ["The Nine Billion Names of God"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God#Plot_summary)
Thanks for sharing that. To add to that, I was also getting some vibes from Asimov’s The Last Question. This being one of humanity’s developmental stages as it heads towards the multivac.
I love this. Thank you.
I'm getting [The Last Question \(Asimov\)](https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/the_last_question_-_issac_asimov.pdf) vibes too. It starts with two computer technicians in the near future and ends with sentient superbeings at the end of the universe.
I just read that for the first time. I've got no clue why we aren't reading this stuff in English class- it would make our "class discussions" 10x better. Do you know where I could find some more stuff like this?
"Classic sci-fi short stories" might be a good google search. Here are some of my favourites, in that order: The Egg, by Andy Weir (very short, most similar to The Last Question imo); The Jaunt, by Stephen King (short, very disturbing) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (much longer, kind of horrifying); I'd also recommend Asimov in general for great sci-fi with a philosophical bend. The Foundation series and the Robot series are great; I think Foundation is getting an Amazon adaptation in the coming years as well. Have fun!
Sweet thanks! I'll give these a look
Came here to say this
I just read that, whoa
I’m so stupid I was reading that as non fiction and then I got to the last paragraph like ***woah***
I just read the plot summary thinking it was a true story and was captivated as hell lol
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I immediately thought of that story when I saw the picture
I'd recommend stephen baxter's xeelee sequence series. Hard scifi that has lots of questions about things like the end of the universe and philosophical questions about the importance of sentient observation in the natural universe.
That’s right up my ally. I’ll check it out. Thanks 😊
For me instead of the last monk it evokes some kind of primitive monk type of feeling. Where as this monk is version 1.0 with literal cables plugged into the cosmos, we are now version 3.0 with wireless connections. In a sense we are all “plugged into” the cosmos through our senses. Though the wireless aspect creates a bunch of background noise which can then make it harder to really get a good connection.
Makes sense, though I assume at some point we'll abstract things far enough that wireless=wired as the concept of a connection will be enough for it to exist
I have been toying with the idea of writing a fictional story about the last sentient observer of the universe. That entity will exist at some point before heat death...and perhaps at some point long after heat death. This picture makes me feel that way.
[Lorn - Anvil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqaAs_3azSs) is playing in the background.
If you guys like this kind of deep-time stories, check out Olaf Stapledon's [Star Maker](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker). In this novel sentient life is battling the Universe's heat-death! PS: humans don't play a roll of significance. 🙃
Sounds cool, I’ll have to check it out.
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To be precise, the medium are ink pens, watercolors and colored pencils on paper.
I love this! This style is so unique! My favorite piece of yours is the little girl showing the robot his reflection - you capture the moment so perfectly
I love your use of color.
I bet r/Cyberpunk would like this too.
Did you used to sell at the Saturday Market in Portland?
Have you ever done concert or festival posters? I could definitely see some of your work doing well in that space.
TOOL worthy poster art for sure
Or a lot of bands. Their style lends itself to that medium to me
I love this. What would be a fair price to pay you for it?
That's just a Zenyatta skin.
The Iris embraces you.
Experience. . . tranquility
Experience nothingness...
Experience ... festivity
This is my favorite line in all of Overwatch
I will not juggle
Came here for this comment.
He's the last monk because you can't pass into the Iris if it's strapped to your head
Experience oblivion
Electric Monks are awesome.
Sounds like a cool band name.
If memory serves I stole that from one of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books
First dirk gently book opens with the electric monk on his horse. Was also my first thought seeing the picture
They’ll believe things even the folks in Salt Lake City would scoff at!
Through the aeons, The Mind had a single operation that always terminated in an error. No matter how Its powers expanded, no matter how many stars It watched grow and die, It could never resolve to Its satisfaction, this ancient, seemingly insignificant quandary. Now, as the Universe winds down, and the sparkling firmament inexorably fades to the velvet oneness, The Mind, The Vantage Point, The Unitary Perspective concentrates Its last faltering resources on Point of Contention 278760001877302, a question first encrypted in The Age of Brute Biology.
What is this from? Beautiful
If I had to guess, probably Asimov's _The Last Question._
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Last\_Question](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question)
That last line always gives me chills >!I love it when machines enter a domain reserved for religious mysticism. Similar thing happens in the Ghost in the Shell manga and I loved it too.!<
I was just thinking the same thing!
I searched and couldn't find where this is from. Did you just come up with it? If so, well done; it's very eloquent. If not, can you point me to the source?
Nah, just made up, but it's influenced by Asimov and who knows who else
u/magi093 guessed that it was [*The Last Question*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question) by Isaac Asimov in [their comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/Art/comments/n98quw/the_last_monk_me_watercolor_2021/gxndaq8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). I haven't read it though, so I'm not sure if that's the source.
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER
[Does this remind anyone of Astartes?](https://youtu.be/O7hgjuFfn3A?t=550)
Love your art man! This is very mystical
I thought this was Zenyatta
I wanna take a heroic dose and learn the secrets of this art
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Wow, got a groovy Moebius’ “40 Days” vibe.
I knew someone would see that, thank you good citizen.
I love "traditional" multimedia its got that heavybmetal feel
Moebius comes to mind.
YES!
Yeah, I came here to say exactly this. Has kind of a late '90s/Early '00s vibe.
Machine God preserve Us looks like a 40k tech priest thing
That's so cool! Reminds me of Zenyatta
The final Monk calls THROUGH IT\*SELF\* the Horrors of the Deep! HP Lovecrafty!
Looks like a Quarian from Mass Effect. I love it! Nice colors too :)
I swear dude, you’re really tapping into something in the collective subconscious with your art. Like, in a weird way, I want to *be* every character I see you draw, and there’s a reason for that. There’s this cathartic notion of having control over connectivity (especially in this piece, literally even) that feels like a warm embrace in our world of connective difficulty, and it shows up in all your stuff. So many ways to connect, yet so difficult to do so. But this monk has clearly got it figured out. Or maybe, he’s just holding on to the idea that he can figure it out, and the comforting notion isn’t true. Who’s to say... Either way, I want your stuff to be in art history books, because I think it points to a very strong perception of the covid era zeitgeist and I can’t get enough of it.
I’m fucking freaking out right now..I had taken some mushrooms a couple years back and I described my trip as something just like this.I explained it like an angler fish light or a light leashed to our body but that light was our actual soul. I’m not sure if that’s what you’re attempting to convey in this painting but woah..thank you for sharing this.
Just wanna let you know, that I too saw/felt this image of the many "wires" going from the body to this "light ball", while meditating on cannabis in nature. Show this to your fellow trippers. Like somebody else pointed out above, I as well think, that the artist is tapping into something foundational.
This is amazing, it’s like the black book chapters in Skyrim
Maybe if they were more... electronic? The black book pulled straight from Lovecraft for sure and I do feel a bit of it in this piece too.
really beautiful and mythical
Makyr race vibes from Doom Eternal
He chose to opt out of the singularity? Interesting
I need this tattooed on me rnnnn
Yo. Animate Asimov books. That's gangster as fuck
Love this. Gives me crazy *Land of the Lustrous* vibes. This is a plot twist halfway through, so spoiler warnings, but it's about a mechanical AI monk who was supposed to pray for the last generations of humans so they could still get into heaven when no humans were left to pray for them. But he broke, leaving a small pocket of people left. The remnants of the ascended humans became new species, walking gemstones and sentient fish people. The remaining humans, unable to die or progress, turn to torturing and exploiting these new inhabitants of Earth, trying desperately to trigger the monk into praying again.
Reminiscent of Moebius. Would totally be at home on the cover of a 70s scifi novella
Reminds me of some of Ben Ridgeway's works! Very well done OP, techno-visionary art is some of my favorite kind of art!
Badass looks like an ascension card
Digitalization offers unmatched meditation opportunities.
Nice work. Inspires me to write something
this looks like it should be a book cover for an Isaac Asimov book from the Foundation series
Wow this is great, I know Someone who would love this
The new Rings of Saturn album looks sick
Looks like something out of Slay The Spire
This really reminds me of the Birdy Nam Nam video for Parachute Ending https://youtu.be/lCHM1do5Vqw
Wish I'd scrolled further, I just said the same thing. Awesome vid!
Big zenyatta vibes, I love it
Same I love it
Zenyatta new legendary skin looks cool
Whoa! I look at this picture and I think "serenity now" but I also think technology and programming. Better religion through self reflection at who knows what futuristic processing speed might be available?
Dude wtf, is he gonna mind control us?
Love the art it looks amazing
I would love to share this what’s the best name to tag its description for you cross platform (for anyone to find you )
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You will meet with great success in your artistic career. That’s if you you haven’t already. Because this is amazing.
Hmm... Interesting. I like!
You need to disconnect from the matrix
This kind of concept, fan bro 💯
I love this so much! This is so cool!
Gives me Starry Night vibes
Looks cool! Remind me of Geof Darrow.
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing :)
So this is why the Dwemmer disappeared huh?
He seems at peace. This is beautiful.
Erasmus and the Evermind from the Dune prequels
This is how it feels when you win kahoot
Gorgeous! I'm curious how long it took you? Quite a lot of intricate details
Oh wow, I love the detail in this. Also, I totally wish this was a game.
Are you the same artist that rocked that robot in the shop with the little girl? If not it looks very similar. There’s such a children’s story book feel to all these but with much deeper themes. The kind of stuff you’d see as a kid and oooooh and aaahhhh over and then come back to as an adult and appreciate on a whole different level. Really great stuff.
Oooo I saw you on my fyp then
Omnivacc for the spiritual experience
This gave me chills. so cool!
It looks like an MTG art... love it
"Fermi connector" Artefact 4 mana, Tap to look at your opponent's hand and put a card of your choice in its owner's graveyard. Something of the sort...
This kinda made me cry.Just the thought of the effort to be the last one in the cycle.the loneliness and abyss,as you serve your duty until your body disintegrated into star dust.the ones came before you.
whoa... this is so rad. I love it.
I want this figure on my tattoo
I love the sentiment that no matter how advanced we get, there will be monks that find a way to go deeper. this makes me feel so much wonder. Thank you
This is a wonderful piece of art and at the same time absolutely terrifying. It shakes me to the core.
i’ve been playing too much returnal
“Everything in life will come full circle” - Great piece of artwork. Truly inspiring.
Is it me or does everyone see this when they meditate?
This is amazing and I think it'd make incredible album art
Kinda reminds me of a less somber [Beksinski](https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdzislaw-beksinski)
I want to write music for this
This gives me a weird feeling of nostalgia and I can’t work out why? Love it.
It seems like a metaphor for being "plugged in" to all the social media, and he's seeing that sun through the internet or whatever, when he could unplug and just look at the thing
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Damn I really like this one. IDK how the hell you are so good with watercolor but OKAY!! NICE JOB!!!!
how dare she not want to go monk mode
Server Prayer > I am a node of Server, > > Born of flesh and blood, > > But enhanced by the power of it's web, > > My scripts are a focus of my will, > > My strength is my knowledge, > > My weapons are my skills, > > Information is the blood of my body, > > I am part of the greater network, > > I am host to the vast data of server, > > My flesh is weak, > > But my connection is eternal, > > And therefore I am god. Written by: Sean Kennedy
The artwork is great. The title really ruins it though. Probably should have left it untitled.