I realize this is supposed to depict a hellish situation, but this is literally a primate among the branches.
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Yeah, it doesn't seem so bad, but if he falls it's human pachinko
Plot twist: he lands at the bottom and evolves to the next stage.
I understand this is the intent as well, but something about this looks really fun to climb
Until you’re old, and you realize it extends infinitely in every direction, and there’s nowhere to rest.
source: am old
It’s a primate among the branches and none of the branches are suitable for resting on.
One must climb, or fall.
Is that Anthony Bourdain in his underpants?
I thought it was Moscow Mitch at first glance
That doesn't look like a turtle to me
rip
It's definitely interesting but not sure I see the connection to time. Does anyone else?
I think the old man is the important piece of the picture. Our entire lives are spent climbing away from inescapable death. No matter what we do, a missed hand hold will eventually result in the fall into blackness. The old mans body is bound to fail him, and he will fall.
The thing I like most is the light that the subject of the painting is climbing towards. Sometimes, when I am in a situation where a negative outcome is unchangeable, I don't want to deal with it at all. why play the game of life when we all lose, sort of thing. I think the light is what makes it worth traversing the perils of the pit. I think the light is the things that make life worth living.
But I'm just some dude, and that's what I see. I think someone smarter will be able to tell me I'm wrong.
But I’m just some dude, and that’s what I see. I think someone smarter will be able to tell me I’m wrong.
I think your interpretation is fine and is yours to keep - what you see is as valid as what someone "smarter" might think.
I really like that interpritation of the use of light. Hope, even in perilous circumstances.
I believe the walls are closing in, and the guy is trying to climb out in time.
But the spikes don't have holes to go in, so they will prevent the walls from closing completely anyway.
drr drr drr...
Yes. As you progress forward to new points of stability, you lose contact with the previous ones. It feels like you’re accumulating things in life, but time is entropy’s ceaseless expansion, and the things you relied on before are behind you and possibly even occluded by so many other layers of things in your life.
You’re hoping to reach somewhere to stop, but all there are, are handholds spaced too far to drape yourself across two.
You can’t rest. You have to keep reaching and climbing. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
Makes me think of an MTG card art. Very cool
Thought of Proog, in the first Blender Open Movie
I like all the blender open movies but I do wish that there were more abstract ones like this. This one sticks with me, warts and all.
This is a good watch
For some reason in the thumbnail it looked like Mitch McConnell but when I zoomed in it looks like Jeb Bush to me... It's a really cool good looking piece, but my possibly sleep adled read of the face may have colored my view of the piece as a whole.
This is stupid, the spikes are already against the wall so they cant compress any further. The only risk is falling, the rest of the image adds nothing.
What if the spikes retract like a fake knife? If they did it slowly it would still kebab the guy