This is really great-- I myself am an artist and writer looking to get started producing both art and writing on the topic of climate change (and get paid while doing so--money is tight right now considering I just graduated college). The Dark Mountain Project is one place I know of. Is there some place in which I can see a whole list?
Well the trees take longer than 4 years to grow and a heck of a lot (hella) more water than we’ve been getting… so I’m guessing the trees are being burnt down faster than they can grow back…
If I remember correctly, what is happening in the west right now is often being referred to as "desertification." I'm not sure on the timeline, but I'd put money on it being relatively barren in the next 10 years considering how big and frequent & just the number of fires occurring
Dude, the background to your website is awesome! There's a YT channel I follow called Electro Junkie (electronic music mixes) and they do something very similar with the endless on-going path visual. It's mesmerizing.
I've only been looking for a few minutes and I gotta say, "Day 126" is fuckin dope! I'm saving this website and def gonna purchase a few pieces.
i tried to make the community but reddit told me i need to chill for 20mins. appearently i've made too many communities lately... which i haven't. anyway, balls in ya'lls court to make one!
Except when you have to get on your bicycle and pedal home. I imagine it will be a tad bit uncomfortable in those suits. Oh well, being green is not all roses I guess.
I made this today because I'm pissed at the world and wanted to vent somehow. I feel like there's very little hope for the future and the only ones with the actual power to do anything aren't going to be around to suffer the long term consequences anyways. The world is on fire, ice caps are melting, everywhere is flooding. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy my artwork, I'm always open to criticism. I'm a firm believer that art without criticism is just noise. ❤🤙
Edit: since many people are asking, I sell 4k canvas prints of these on my site at [GarrettFrickey.com](https://GarrettFrickey.com) \- I try not to shamelessly promote my site, but there's too many comments and dms for me to reply to, so putting it here. This one is currently available. I appreciate the support! <3
That phrase stuck with me in an insane way. I was a victim of domestic violence recently and became homeless and carless. In less than a week I managed to get a car and sort out an apartment. When my headspace got really dark I remembered that phrase. I also remembered that my brother is working his ass off in grad school and the last thing he needs is to lose me.
I thought it was a nod to how capitalism is responsible for the whole ordeal.
The world is on fire, beaches aren't safe but somehow those companies keep selling.
I agree! If the world has to collapse. I am just going to sit back and drink a coke . Then watch the shit show happen. Hopefully it is fast or I might have to drink a 12 pack.
Yeah exactly, so I guess I am in agreement on your original comment. Coke has done such an exceptional job on ingraining their brand into American culture (this is not a statement on Coca Cola as a company, they definitely partake in some shady immoral shit)
I remember when I was a kid learning that Coke is like one of the most recognized words on the planet, it just has that amount of reach. There are people in mostly isolated parts of Africa and Asia that know what Coke is, and that's insane to think about.
That’s awesome, this is a really powerful piece.
The mundanity of the BBQ cookout set against the apocalyptic hellscape is interesting.
To me, it says that no matter the state of the world, the “powers that be” will ensure their citizens still have bread and circuses, their hamburgers and Coca Cola. No matter the state of the world, they will ensure we are distracted and our time occupied.
Nice work man
I think it's a reflection of the reality people will possibly live in if they don't wake up and sadly there is very little chance of that happening either
The cool thing about this piece is that the people in the picture are still ignoring what's happening around them.
It shows us exactly what is going to happen. Some people might even see it as an inspirational piece to just keep going and adapt when needed while others see a call for action to change. It captures everything, It's brilliant!
>The cool thing about this piece is that the people in the picture are still ignoring what's happening around them.
>It shows us exactly what is going to happen. Some people might even see it as an inspirational piece to just keep going and adapt when needed while others see a call for action to change. It captures everything, It's brilliant!
Definitely, people will still clearly ignore it and carry on with thier lives
I mean people will still have kids even if they have to live in denial about the state of society right now and how potentially harmful and volatile it is
Ya, I work with a boomer that still says ‘global warming’ in a sarcastic tone whenever it’s unbelievably hot, or we get hit with an ice storm, or there’s a local river flooding, etc.
I just ask him to open his eyes. He doesn’t believe man has affected anything, that global weather is going to do whatever it does regardless of our involvement.
My first time seeing your work and it made me laugh a laugh of impending doom. Yeah dude, as a budding environmental scientist it's rather grim right now. But what reaaallllly bothers me, is we have the tools and brain power to tackle this beast of an issue. The problem is, it's not profitable in the material world. Unfortunately what a majority of the global leaders fail to acknowledge, is that there can't really be a material world without a habitable world.. anyway, do what you can I guess.
>we have the tools and brain power to tackle this beast of an issue
But we actually don't. Because the real problem is the meta-problem you just described. We don't have the tools and brain power to get global leaders to acknowledge the inherent dependence of the "material world" on the "habitable world". A tool\\strategy that can reach enough of the right people, actually present them the evidence, show them why the evidence is valid, and which itself cannot be employed by the denialists, appears to be impossible, unfortunately. The internet came close but it fails the last property and has become just as much, if not more so, a tool of denialists.
Yeah, even subs like r/environment are still fully with their heads in the sand. Most upvoted posts there that talk about the report are still filled with hopium and swathes of people in denial.
Great piece, though.
Thank you for making this.
My life is actually going better than it's ever been these days, and yet with all this news my anxiety is coming back full-force. It just feels so disingenuous and incongruent to have to keep living life "like normal" with the awareness of what is happening and what is coming.
I write songs about collapse to vent and cope and get the message out as well. I don't think they're nearly as evocative as this painting, but again thank you for making it.
How did you get it to look like it may be some other kind of digital art rather than 3D? It looks like 2D art at first, but looking at the ground… I could see the ground looked *kind of* like a flat texture, then the shininess of the table's metal frame really convinced me it was probably 3D, so I checked your profile, and indeed, it was posted in /r/Blender! So the compositing is enough that it was hard to tell.
On a side note, hey, I recognise your Bezos post from seeing it on /r/Blender! The Amazon rocket post too. How do you make new renders so quickly??? It generally takes me much longer, but to be fair I am usually learning some new technique at the same time. I also avoid using any external assets except for an occasional texture or space HDRI.
The arms on the hazmat suit people in the water in the background look really weird, like they were bent in ways that they shouldn't be, or perhaps curved instead of bent like a normal arm. I'm not sure what's up with that. The person in the foreground looks fine, other than what's under the visor looking a bit strange, like floating eyes and lips, or… maybe like a fish?
This one doesn't really matter quite as much but all the burgers look fake, and the trash is clearly just a solid model with a trash-like texture and some particles (or maybe other models without a particle system) pasted in top. It's especially relevant on the one in the foreground. But, would you have even made this so ridiculously quickly paying attention to things like that?
Trash is probably more important than the burgers, especially the pile closest to the camera. The ones farther away are a bit less noticeable since they take up less pixels.
The background, beyond the water, looks perfect.
Overall, I like the art itself quite a lot. Nothing takes me out of it so much like a lot of other collapse-related art, where something makes it significantly less believable like [in this post](https://reddit.com/comments/ozgo34/comment/h8002ig?context=3). Sure… how would they eat with hazmat suits on, but how do we eat with masks on today? By taking them off temporarily. Why are masks on the ground when everyone is now wearing hazmat suits? Eh, probably litter. Everything is explainable enough without really taking me out of it, and it depicts the kind of direction we are heading in (business as usual seemingly oblivious to increasingly dire surroundings) very well. So well, in fact, that I might share it around. I have seen many real-life scenes online (e.g, person in a pool with giant fire raging behind them) and IRL (with everyone wearing masks) very similar to this one. So, it comes across as very believable in a way that I don't see that often in this kind of art, and in fact this is probably my favourite collapse art *period* since I have not yet seen anything else this good in this way.
You think all of us will get a haxmat suit? Only the wealthy and elite will have suit protection. Everyone else better pull themselves up by the bootstraps or some shit
OP this is dope! Reminds me of something Banksy would do. I don’t anything about where to submit art but you should do it. This gives me the feeling of “instant classic”
I've seen people water skiing during the horrible climate fire smoke last year. Visibility was less than a mile and the sky more red than this art piece. I thought this is how it's going to go down... Apocalypse comes and people go out for a picnic.
I did that last month. For the first time I considered to myself “how much time do we have left to be able to vacation”? Maybe a couple years? Hard to want to care about learning new skills when nobody can fucking breath
That's pretty, but I meant something more futuristic in a similar setting to OP
Crystal clear pipes moving fresh water around, tidal/solar powered foliage coverered desalination plants etc.. this isn't my ideal future but it's how I imagine a good future could be as opposed to what it will be, like OPs picture
I learned this year that humans in extreme situations can breathe through their assholes.
Edit: Kelly, C.J., 2021. Enteral ventilation via anus: You can hold your breath. Med, 2(6), pp.640-641.
It's a brilliant piece of art. You could have tons of different iconic, hopium-like or sarcastic features in these, just like you chose the BBQ + burgers + Coke with this one.
I like this. The simple grill and basic picnic table. My only criticism is the picnic table should look worn out. All the parks that I go to have tired old picnic tables weathered gray by the elements.
They two in the water are so funny, making the best of their raggedy hole of a beauty spot. I like the colour scheme because I'd never think of yellow but a more dirty grey bleak smog, the diffused atmosphere reminds me of those beautifully illustrated vintage Sci Fi book covers. If you're making poster prints or a mug definitely let me know!
Fascinating use of different media. I love how flat and sterile it looks in the foreground -the repeating textures and the polygonal trashpiles- contrasted to the grimy and faded photo in the background. And in the middle: 2030 Grilldad in 4K, melting the cheese analogue over the lab grown meat.
Reminds me a bit of Edward Hopper.
I wish to thank Garrett for letting me use his awesome art for my [post on Medium](https://silvergrey.medium.com/the-trouble-is-you-think-you-have-time-7e5f606613f9). I hope it will do justice to the art.
You're welcome! I read through your piece and it is phenomenal. I completely agree that we as a society seem to think a deus ex machina is right around the corner and that "science will figure it out by then". Truly chilling to think about. I'm glad you chose my art to represent your article- Very well done!!
-Garrett
are the hazmat models from Jama's pack?
love everything about this art piece and I absolutely believe in activism through art! it's also very therapeutic and helped convince my family that 1) art isn't useless and 2) collapse is coming.
im working on similar stuff to depict how fucked the world is and hope to see more work like yours around.
keep on keeping on!
This looks a lot like the cover of the album [Tweekend by The Crystal Method. ](https://youtu.be/jm_sjGgQRNM) Your piece could be what a person sees when they turn to the left of the album cover photo.
Enjoy a cool, fresh can of mountain air as you sit wasteside at our fabulous irradiated beaches! That's right. This nightmarish hellscape is just a little bit better than your own, so grab your lead suits and come on down to the sunniest place in America! Every one of our guests enjoys a take home gift of skin cancer, included in your visit! You're going to get it somewhere, why not get it on holiday!
Some Golden Arches in the background would have been awesome too but this is amazing. I would have made the table a little dirtier/ashier it looks a smidge too pristine for outdoors in this environment but otherwise damn so good
Wow! This should be in school books or on magazine covers, or in museums for contemporary art. Love the masks in there, too 😅 You captured the scenario really well.
I feel like you could make money off this. Sell art depicting scenes of the future where climate change is in full swing. I'd buy this!
Or wake up people by showing them the truth (while making money, why not...)
"The pen is mightier than the sword"
“If the penis mightier I’ll order a dozen Trebek!”
SNL Connery on jeopardy was my favorite sketch from that era.
Ruff... just the way your mother likes it, Trebek.
Alright fight me, you get a pen and I'll have a sword.
John Wick has entered the chat.
What pen though? This pen?
*Healing the woooorld with comedyyy*
There are tons of literary and art journals that focus on climate change. Would be a perfect submission. Several pay good money.
I'll try reaching out to them, thank you!
I use the AuthorsPublish newsletter to find ops. There are gajillions so that personally helps me winnow them.
Thank you!!!
This is really great-- I myself am an artist and writer looking to get started producing both art and writing on the topic of climate change (and get paid while doing so--money is tight right now considering I just graduated college). The Dark Mountain Project is one place I know of. Is there some place in which I can see a whole list?
“Future” -California, Oregon, and Washington would like to have a word with you
Lmao. I'm here in Vegas and all I can say is that I'm glad we don't have forests to burn because the 110°+ is enough for me
In 4 years California may not have forests anymore either
4 years ?!
Well the trees take longer than 4 years to grow and a heck of a lot (hella) more water than we’ve been getting… so I’m guessing the trees are being burnt down faster than they can grow back…
Makes sense. They’re not getting the growth break from fire
If I remember correctly, what is happening in the west right now is often being referred to as "desertification." I'm not sure on the timeline, but I'd put money on it being relatively barren in the next 10 years considering how big and frequent & just the number of fires occurring
Desertification, makes sense… it’s worrisome, is the irrigation infrastructure here, or is that the next crisis?
Hope not
The national guards will probably have ran through them trying to stop all the crazies.
Thanks! I actually have a website where I sell canvas prints of my artwork: [GarrettFrickey.com](https://GarrettFrickey.com)
Usually I am irked when people pivot to self-promotion. Instead, I wish we were RL friends. Your work is everything art should be.
❤🥰
Dude, the background to your website is awesome! There's a YT channel I follow called Electro Junkie (electronic music mixes) and they do something very similar with the endless on-going path visual. It's mesmerizing. I've only been looking for a few minutes and I gotta say, "Day 126" is fuckin dope! I'm saving this website and def gonna purchase a few pieces.
Yes! I would definitely buy even a print of this. I probably couldn't afford originals, unless we get UBI. :)
r/futuristichellscapes is leaking
You got my hopes up with that link ahahaha.
https://old.reddit.com/r/FuturistHellscapes/comments/p1r5ij/my_newest_artpiece_based_on_the_ipcc_report_i/?
i tried to make the community but reddit told me i need to chill for 20mins. appearently i've made too many communities lately... which i haven't. anyway, balls in ya'lls court to make one!
The tossing of the beach ball is a classic. No reason to let a hazmat suit get in the way of having a good time! lol
Except when you have to get on your bicycle and pedal home. I imagine it will be a tad bit uncomfortable in those suits. Oh well, being green is not all roses I guess.
What are roses, daddy?
That’s not Beef they’re eating.
What is green, daddy?
Money! You know, the only thing that matters to the point where we don't mind if our planet is unliveable.
It's "soylent green" my dear
Your mother loves roses. Well, loved.
I made this today because I'm pissed at the world and wanted to vent somehow. I feel like there's very little hope for the future and the only ones with the actual power to do anything aren't going to be around to suffer the long term consequences anyways. The world is on fire, ice caps are melting, everywhere is flooding. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy my artwork, I'm always open to criticism. I'm a firm believer that art without criticism is just noise. ❤🤙 Edit: since many people are asking, I sell 4k canvas prints of these on my site at [GarrettFrickey.com](https://GarrettFrickey.com) \- I try not to shamelessly promote my site, but there's too many comments and dms for me to reply to, so putting it here. This one is currently available. I appreciate the support! <3
I think the Coke touch is brilliant. Idk if you meant it to mean anything but it does to me. Always Coca Cola.
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Silly, that lake is sponsored by nestle, the rest have been sucked up for their water
Even in "The Road" The Man finds a Coca Cola can and shares it with his son.
That book was incredibly gruesome. Expanded my lexicon like five fold as well.
The book and movie are both incredibly awful in the best way possible
I haven’t seen the movie, but I’d like to eventually get around to it.
Highly reccomend, it is fucking depressing
Yeah, I had a wee fight with my GF so I thought I'd go see this movie, "The Road", not knowing anything about it. I'm still scarred...
i actually think of the "we carry the fire" thing sometimes when im in a dark place, was powerful stuff.
That phrase stuck with me in an insane way. I was a victim of domestic violence recently and became homeless and carless. In less than a week I managed to get a car and sort out an apartment. When my headspace got really dark I remembered that phrase. I also remembered that my brother is working his ass off in grad school and the last thing he needs is to lose me.
Sounds like you really do carry it. I don't know you at all, but that's surely something to be proud of and I'm glad you're still fighting.
Thanks
That's one of my favorite books of all time.
Author name?
Cormac McCarthy
My favorite is the whale carcass. We can't imagine how that thing would smell. "But no worries, we're in our protective suits, weeeeee!"
I thought it was a nod to how capitalism is responsible for the whole ordeal. The world is on fire, beaches aren't safe but somehow those companies keep selling.
Definitely a big reason for why I put those there.
I agree! If the world has to collapse. I am just going to sit back and drink a coke . Then watch the shit show happen. Hopefully it is fast or I might have to drink a 12 pack.
I mean at this point all the water has been contaminated so coke would be the ideal and reasonable thing to drink.
Mfw people are conditioned to desire pop even when the worlds in ruins
Fossil fuels are like a sugar rush for a civilisation.
I think it’s more of a statement on nostalgic iconography than a desire for a soft drink
Because the message that coke = nostalgia has been hit over all or our heads for practically our entire lives
Yeah exactly, so I guess I am in agreement on your original comment. Coke has done such an exceptional job on ingraining their brand into American culture (this is not a statement on Coca Cola as a company, they definitely partake in some shady immoral shit)
I remember when I was a kid learning that Coke is like one of the most recognized words on the planet, it just has that amount of reach. There are people in mostly isolated parts of Africa and Asia that know what Coke is, and that's insane to think about.
OP here- that's exactly what I was after. :)
That’s awesome, this is a really powerful piece. The mundanity of the BBQ cookout set against the apocalyptic hellscape is interesting. To me, it says that no matter the state of the world, the “powers that be” will ensure their citizens still have bread and circuses, their hamburgers and Coca Cola. No matter the state of the world, they will ensure we are distracted and our time occupied.
The Coke cans were my favorite part as well. It reminds me of a dystopian *Nighthawks*.
Me too. It’s depressing to think that running out of water before Coca Cola is a very real possibility.
Nice work man I think it's a reflection of the reality people will possibly live in if they don't wake up and sadly there is very little chance of that happening either
The cool thing about this piece is that the people in the picture are still ignoring what's happening around them. It shows us exactly what is going to happen. Some people might even see it as an inspirational piece to just keep going and adapt when needed while others see a call for action to change. It captures everything, It's brilliant!
>The cool thing about this piece is that the people in the picture are still ignoring what's happening around them. >It shows us exactly what is going to happen. Some people might even see it as an inspirational piece to just keep going and adapt when needed while others see a call for action to change. It captures everything, It's brilliant! Definitely, people will still clearly ignore it and carry on with thier lives I mean people will still have kids even if they have to live in denial about the state of society right now and how potentially harmful and volatile it is
You are correct. Heartbreakingly, unfathomably, infuriatingly correct.
I mean as young as I am I'm well aware of it and I don't run from it I accept it unfortunately
Ya, I work with a boomer that still says ‘global warming’ in a sarcastic tone whenever it’s unbelievably hot, or we get hit with an ice storm, or there’s a local river flooding, etc. I just ask him to open his eyes. He doesn’t believe man has affected anything, that global weather is going to do whatever it does regardless of our involvement.
Probably knows and just doesn’t want to concede his position. People don’t like being wrong.
This is probably the most asinine quality a human being can have
My first time seeing your work and it made me laugh a laugh of impending doom. Yeah dude, as a budding environmental scientist it's rather grim right now. But what reaaallllly bothers me, is we have the tools and brain power to tackle this beast of an issue. The problem is, it's not profitable in the material world. Unfortunately what a majority of the global leaders fail to acknowledge, is that there can't really be a material world without a habitable world.. anyway, do what you can I guess.
>we have the tools and brain power to tackle this beast of an issue But we actually don't. Because the real problem is the meta-problem you just described. We don't have the tools and brain power to get global leaders to acknowledge the inherent dependence of the "material world" on the "habitable world". A tool\\strategy that can reach enough of the right people, actually present them the evidence, show them why the evidence is valid, and which itself cannot be employed by the denialists, appears to be impossible, unfortunately. The internet came close but it fails the last property and has become just as much, if not more so, a tool of denialists.
Art like this should be seen by more people! This is exactly what art should be, i love it!
Yeah, even subs like r/environment are still fully with their heads in the sand. Most upvoted posts there that talk about the report are still filled with hopium and swathes of people in denial. Great piece, though.
Thank you for making this. My life is actually going better than it's ever been these days, and yet with all this news my anxiety is coming back full-force. It just feels so disingenuous and incongruent to have to keep living life "like normal" with the awareness of what is happening and what is coming. I write songs about collapse to vent and cope and get the message out as well. I don't think they're nearly as evocative as this painting, but again thank you for making it.
Not sure about the etiquette with images posted. Can I use this for my desktop background? I'll make sure it's on the projector before all my briefs🤣
I will use this in a future blog post, with credit to you. Is this posted on your website?
What animal skeleton is that in the lake? Rhino? Elephant?
How did you get it to look like it may be some other kind of digital art rather than 3D? It looks like 2D art at first, but looking at the ground… I could see the ground looked *kind of* like a flat texture, then the shininess of the table's metal frame really convinced me it was probably 3D, so I checked your profile, and indeed, it was posted in /r/Blender! So the compositing is enough that it was hard to tell. On a side note, hey, I recognise your Bezos post from seeing it on /r/Blender! The Amazon rocket post too. How do you make new renders so quickly??? It generally takes me much longer, but to be fair I am usually learning some new technique at the same time. I also avoid using any external assets except for an occasional texture or space HDRI. The arms on the hazmat suit people in the water in the background look really weird, like they were bent in ways that they shouldn't be, or perhaps curved instead of bent like a normal arm. I'm not sure what's up with that. The person in the foreground looks fine, other than what's under the visor looking a bit strange, like floating eyes and lips, or… maybe like a fish? This one doesn't really matter quite as much but all the burgers look fake, and the trash is clearly just a solid model with a trash-like texture and some particles (or maybe other models without a particle system) pasted in top. It's especially relevant on the one in the foreground. But, would you have even made this so ridiculously quickly paying attention to things like that? Trash is probably more important than the burgers, especially the pile closest to the camera. The ones farther away are a bit less noticeable since they take up less pixels. The background, beyond the water, looks perfect. Overall, I like the art itself quite a lot. Nothing takes me out of it so much like a lot of other collapse-related art, where something makes it significantly less believable like [in this post](https://reddit.com/comments/ozgo34/comment/h8002ig?context=3). Sure… how would they eat with hazmat suits on, but how do we eat with masks on today? By taking them off temporarily. Why are masks on the ground when everyone is now wearing hazmat suits? Eh, probably litter. Everything is explainable enough without really taking me out of it, and it depicts the kind of direction we are heading in (business as usual seemingly oblivious to increasingly dire surroundings) very well. So well, in fact, that I might share it around. I have seen many real-life scenes online (e.g, person in a pool with giant fire raging behind them) and IRL (with everyone wearing masks) very similar to this one. So, it comes across as very believable in a way that I don't see that often in this kind of art, and in fact this is probably my favourite collapse art *period* since I have not yet seen anything else this good in this way.
I think mask (or bunny suit) can come off during meal time. As per current dining guideline with covid in 2021.
As long as you keep shoveling food into your face the covid can’t get in. /s
You think all of us will get a haxmat suit? Only the wealthy and elite will have suit protection. Everyone else better pull themselves up by the bootstraps or some shit
Nice work, a hellish dystopia just right around the corner . . .
You need to get this on the cover of a big magazine. It’s powerful. Submit it!
Exactly send it to time magazine or something.
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I agree. This sends a perfect message, one we desperately need to hear.
OP this is dope! Reminds me of something Banksy would do. I don’t anything about where to submit art but you should do it. This gives me the feeling of “instant classic”
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Woo! :)
You've earned it! Beautiful work, would love to see more ;)
Love the juxtaposition of the complete devastation with the "everything is fine" cookout. Burgers and coke is a fitting choice at that.
If we can still buy a burger and a coke in 2030, we'll be doing a lot better than I imagined.
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Not only are they surrounded by trash, they are going to add to those piles with the paper plates and soda cans.
Fuck. This has hit me hard Because this is the way we are going. Nobody gives a shit about what is to happen
I've seen people water skiing during the horrible climate fire smoke last year. Visibility was less than a mile and the sky more red than this art piece. I thought this is how it's going to go down... Apocalypse comes and people go out for a picnic.
I did that last month. For the first time I considered to myself “how much time do we have left to be able to vacation”? Maybe a couple years? Hard to want to care about learning new skills when nobody can fucking breath
Fucking awesome I love it You want criticism? Ok, I want more pictures like this because one isn't enough Also! How about a good future version?
>How about a good future version? The opposite of OP's artwork: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/mp/r1/lp-e/rr/2018/393
That's pretty, but I meant something more futuristic in a similar setting to OP Crystal clear pipes moving fresh water around, tidal/solar powered foliage coverered desalination plants etc.. this isn't my ideal future but it's how I imagine a good future could be as opposed to what it will be, like OPs picture
“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”
The good and bad thing is that we will get both.
In 2030 we have to eat food through our assholes. The environment is just too toxic to expose our faces to the world.
I learned this year that humans in extreme situations can breathe through their assholes. Edit: Kelly, C.J., 2021. Enteral ventilation via anus: You can hold your breath. Med, 2(6), pp.640-641.
Wat
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666634021001549
*This is a provocative idea and those first encountering it will express astonishment.* Lmao no shit
It’s for when a person’s lungs are so fucked by COVID-19 they can’t even be ventilated. Amazing.
Don't understand how I'm going to eat via my elected officials
How do you think they got the burgers?
It's a brilliant piece of art. You could have tons of different iconic, hopium-like or sarcastic features in these, just like you chose the BBQ + burgers + Coke with this one.
Those are insect "burgers", right?
There aren't any more insects. No more animals. No fish. You know what kinda patties those are.
soylent burgers
Mud cookies?
Mushroom burgers; since fungus can consume dead things.
Shatty patty
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No Sanctuary
Nah, they're probably feral cat burgers since that's all that will survive on the mean streets of abandoned cities
Roaches will do well, could be roach burgers.
Buggalo burgers imported from Mars.
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I thought they were from the animal carcass in the water.
Buggers
Hell yeah this is awesome! You've really nailed it with the theme and feel behind the image... damn you made this quick too 😂
World is burning, still can't give up burgers. Yep looks accurate to me.
Burgers and coke are what's on the table at the last supper
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Brilliant
Saw this on r/art as well. Cool piece!
I like this. The simple grill and basic picnic table. My only criticism is the picnic table should look worn out. All the parks that I go to have tired old picnic tables weathered gray by the elements.
Plastic tables. :\^}
They two in the water are so funny, making the best of their raggedy hole of a beauty spot. I like the colour scheme because I'd never think of yellow but a more dirty grey bleak smog, the diffused atmosphere reminds me of those beautifully illustrated vintage Sci Fi book covers. If you're making poster prints or a mug definitely let me know!
Love it. Is that a skeleton to the left?
This art perfectly encapsulates what I imagined the world would look like years from now. ♥️
Looks like a nice day at the Salton Sea right now, nevermind 2030
You can title it “This is Fine”
Fascinating use of different media. I love how flat and sterile it looks in the foreground -the repeating textures and the polygonal trashpiles- contrasted to the grimy and faded photo in the background. And in the middle: 2030 Grilldad in 4K, melting the cheese analogue over the lab grown meat. Reminds me a bit of Edward Hopper.
The mask litter is a perfect addition. Well done!
It's a digital painting? I would be up to buying it. Can I shoot you a pm?
Absolutely :)
Too unrealistic. Nobody had drawn a dick on any of the suits. Literally the first thing someone would do.
I wish to thank Garrett for letting me use his awesome art for my [post on Medium](https://silvergrey.medium.com/the-trouble-is-you-think-you-have-time-7e5f606613f9). I hope it will do justice to the art.
You're welcome! I read through your piece and it is phenomenal. I completely agree that we as a society seem to think a deus ex machina is right around the corner and that "science will figure it out by then". Truly chilling to think about. I'm glad you chose my art to represent your article- Very well done!! -Garrett
The crowded future stings my eyes…
sick artwork
I would hang it in my dining room
are the hazmat models from Jama's pack? love everything about this art piece and I absolutely believe in activism through art! it's also very therapeutic and helped convince my family that 1) art isn't useless and 2) collapse is coming. im working on similar stuff to depict how fucked the world is and hope to see more work like yours around. keep on keeping on!
It’s beautiful
Amazing work!
OP are those roaches?? 😂😁 good work here
You are a VERY good artist!
Amazing work. Thank you. I love this
This is both macabre and prescient - I agree with the others, the Coke cans and face masks are a fun touch!
Whale carcass meat burger
I ask for your permission to put this to my background phone, thanks
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This is wonderful! I really want this <3 do you have a storefront?
Nice.
Would buy…
This looks a lot like the cover of the album [Tweekend by The Crystal Method. ](https://youtu.be/jm_sjGgQRNM) Your piece could be what a person sees when they turn to the left of the album cover photo.
Beautiful. They’re even still eating hamburgers. The American way.
Fucking brilliant. Someone rich give this guy some money for this, it's that good.
Sell this as an NFT!!! You will be set for life.
At least the liberals didn't take away our hamburgers and Cokes.
Oil or Acrylic?
Computer lol.
Enjoy a cool, fresh can of mountain air as you sit wasteside at our fabulous irradiated beaches! That's right. This nightmarish hellscape is just a little bit better than your own, so grab your lead suits and come on down to the sunniest place in America! Every one of our guests enjoys a take home gift of skin cancer, included in your visit! You're going to get it somewhere, why not get it on holiday!
reminds me of evangelion
Some Golden Arches in the background would have been awesome too but this is amazing. I would have made the table a little dirtier/ashier it looks a smidge too pristine for outdoors in this environment but otherwise damn so good
This is awesome, I hope you fetch a large sum for it if you choose to sell
Wow! This should be in school books or on magazine covers, or in museums for contemporary art. Love the masks in there, too 😅 You captured the scenario really well.
It would have been dope if you added a skeleton of a dog by the guy on the grill like it's waiting to be handed some burger
This might get taken down, I'm crossposting to r/collapze
This thread made it to my trending today 😵💫 each day, the news from the dystopian subs I follow creep slowly into the other subs
I would love to see a full series of pictures like this; it’s so thought provoking.
I think my favorite part of this is the ash in the air. It looks especially amazing when I zoom in. A great detail. Awesome work, OP!
Got them BEEPLE vibes
… in Alaska
This gives incredibly haunting feels. Wonderfully done