Jul 27, 2010
A futuristically current utopian dystopia
Radoslav Zilinsky’s “The World”
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Jul 27, 2010
Radoslav Zilinsky’s “The World”
(Click the image to enlarge, so you don’t miss the details.)
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I’m going to geek myself here, but the first thing I thought of was Final Fantasy VII. High tech city above, low tech slum below.
Love the windmill.
The detail work is phenomenal-lower right hand corner…double rainbow, all the way.
I guess I miss the dystopian aspects. There seems to be enough food, clothing and shelter for the Groundlings. Perhaps the dystopia is that they are not allowed to enter the City?
Guess what. My wife wouldn’t want to enter the city (except maybe to shop or catch a movie.) She and many others would prefer the rustic life portrayed at the bottom of the page.
There seems to be some kind of revival meeting going on at the fire. You can tell it’s a church group, `cause there’s a potluck waiting for them at the end of the meeting.
I kind of wonder which part is more dystopian. I like all the advantages we have through technology, and I don’t want to romanticize the ‘medieval’ circumstances of the people in the lower half of the picture, but it looks like the city people have the progress, while the others have the community.
So, yeah, I guess the city dwellers are living the dystopia here.
Wow this is cool
The windmill. It’s the windmill that makes that picture come alive.
That is a frickin’ AWESOME picture!
At least in the bottom I know what is happening at the human level. Who knows what is going on at the human scale behind those menacing walls. Where humanity meets urbanity things undoubtedly run the gamut of adjectives for the word messy. Which one is dystopia is subjective to which side you think has the greener grass. So who has the better view?
I agree that there’s plenty that’s ominous about the city.
I’m surprised there’s no mention yet of this obvious situation: The body of water next to which the lower village lives receives all the upper city’s runoff. If the upper city doesn’t employ both very advanced treatment to that runoff before discharging it, and advanced ethics in consistently applying that treatment, that would seem to be very bad news for the lower community.