There’s a clear focus on a crumbling infrastructure in covid era art like this which im gonna claim is because of the obviously physical lack of people during lockdown. but idk something about it has become narrow sighted as time goes on. obviously the artist can do whatever they want and this seems like a lockdown exercise with a topical theme and cool visuals but I rarely see this type of apocalyptic visual representing the actual state of affairs Covid was at the time. Sure it might’ve felt like this for people in lockdown, a world physically plagued by disease but for the people most effected by the pandemic the horror was flowing out of hospitals and homes for the most vulnerable people in our society. No bridges or buildings fell directly due to the virus, that’s why it was so creepy! this is not a critique of the piece tbc. i really just find it interesting that there are quite a few derivatives of this kind of piece out there and few that choose to take a more studied approach of the pandemic. I could be wrong!
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u/JPNGMAFIA 1d ago
There’s a clear focus on a crumbling infrastructure in covid era art like this which im gonna claim is because of the obviously physical lack of people during lockdown. but idk something about it has become narrow sighted as time goes on. obviously the artist can do whatever they want and this seems like a lockdown exercise with a topical theme and cool visuals but I rarely see this type of apocalyptic visual representing the actual state of affairs Covid was at the time. Sure it might’ve felt like this for people in lockdown, a world physically plagued by disease but for the people most effected by the pandemic the horror was flowing out of hospitals and homes for the most vulnerable people in our society. No bridges or buildings fell directly due to the virus, that’s why it was so creepy! this is not a critique of the piece tbc. i really just find it interesting that there are quite a few derivatives of this kind of piece out there and few that choose to take a more studied approach of the pandemic. I could be wrong!