I Paint Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings Of Strange Antiques That Never Existed
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Alternative Artifacts is my latest series of hyperreal oil paintings which feature strange antiques that never existed. The bizarre objects stretch and bend the truth about our past in order to bring a focus on the deceptions going on in our world today.
The old and worn out objects have a surreal quality that are meticulously painted which causes the viewer to question the authenticity of what they are seeing. The antiques appear to be absurd but they are presented with such precise detail that their stories can almost be believed. This blurring of lines between what is real and what is not, reflects our present day where governments gaslight their own people, propaganda outlets pose as news organizations and social media networks spread conspiracy theories. These are the objects that never happened from a past that only exists in the Post Truth era.
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Track Skate
Self Contained Underwater Deejay Apparatus
Antique Camera Phone
Wind Powered Bike
Red Tattoo Drill
Hand Crank Trumpet
The Hadron Typewriter
Corkscrew Syringe
Boombox Radio Telescope
Nile Tooth Wrench
The Hadron Typewriter from beginning to end
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The fact that these are paintings blow my mind! I can't believe how realistic they look. I am blown away. Also side note... the needle that's a drill? my nightmares now have a new topic.... thanks.
thanks :) I dont think it would be very functional but if it did work it would be a nightmare
Wonderful and amazing work. Simply a great mind that can combine such items... Your Hadron typewriter bothers me in the implications of writing in elementary particle physics.... Not that I am complaining mind you but wouldn't the keys be the three realms of particles with each set of particles represented in those realms (low, medium and high energy)? Just a thought, observation and complete geek out.
Thank you, my thought was that when you press a key and it enters the center of the typewriter, it approaches the speed of light, after that, I have no idea, lol. It was actually the first one I did in the series and it is about how something like the Hadron Collider is only possible because of the centuries of scientists who wrote down their discoveries and passed them down.
As a scientist, I understand the basics of how the actual Large Hadron Collider (LHC) works. Its essentially the worlds largest tube system built for the smallest of particles. Now imagine a typewriter that uses protons to type the letters 27 km away, but only after it misses the paper several million times. The heaviest impacts of the LHC are greater than the amount of energy the sun produces for size of the particles it is impacting. Imagine if you will taking two cars and shooting them toward each other from opposite sides of the solar system. Now accelerate those cars faster and faster toward each other. After they impact each other you take a snapshot of all the debris flying away from the impact, and that is how you have to figure out what the cars were originally made of. This is what physicists have to work with to understand our universe beyond math.
The Camera Phone.... Brilliant, simply brilliant!
thanks, that was one of the first ones I did
The fact that these are paintings blow my mind! I can't believe how realistic they look. I am blown away. Also side note... the needle that's a drill? my nightmares now have a new topic.... thanks.
thanks :) I dont think it would be very functional but if it did work it would be a nightmare
Wonderful and amazing work. Simply a great mind that can combine such items... Your Hadron typewriter bothers me in the implications of writing in elementary particle physics.... Not that I am complaining mind you but wouldn't the keys be the three realms of particles with each set of particles represented in those realms (low, medium and high energy)? Just a thought, observation and complete geek out.
Thank you, my thought was that when you press a key and it enters the center of the typewriter, it approaches the speed of light, after that, I have no idea, lol. It was actually the first one I did in the series and it is about how something like the Hadron Collider is only possible because of the centuries of scientists who wrote down their discoveries and passed them down.
As a scientist, I understand the basics of how the actual Large Hadron Collider (LHC) works. Its essentially the worlds largest tube system built for the smallest of particles. Now imagine a typewriter that uses protons to type the letters 27 km away, but only after it misses the paper several million times. The heaviest impacts of the LHC are greater than the amount of energy the sun produces for size of the particles it is impacting. Imagine if you will taking two cars and shooting them toward each other from opposite sides of the solar system. Now accelerate those cars faster and faster toward each other. After they impact each other you take a snapshot of all the debris flying away from the impact, and that is how you have to figure out what the cars were originally made of. This is what physicists have to work with to understand our universe beyond math.
The Camera Phone.... Brilliant, simply brilliant!
thanks, that was one of the first ones I did