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"At the centre of that great city was its jewel, the Zoolomechanical Society. When open to the public, its star attraction was the Eliophant, a lumbering beast that performed tricks for entertainment. Left to their own devices, the mechanimals have run wild, and entrance to their domain is barred by the great spectacle himself.""The Spectacle". Watercolour on paper, 2013.
The final in my steampunk triptych.
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"How do our pretendedly rational and programmed societies function? What motivates the populations, what stirs them? Scientific progress, objective information, insight into the facts and causes, the punishment of the truly guilty or the growth of collective happiness? Absolutely not: no one is interested in that. What fascinates everyone is the debauchery of appearances, that reality is always and everywhere debauched by appearances. That's an interesting game, and it's played out in the media, in fashion, in advertising - more generally in the spectacle of technology, of science, of politics; in any spectacle whatsoever. The veritable contemporary social bond is the concerted partaking in seduction. A revolution might alter the course of history, but only its spectacle is truly sublime. And which do we prefer? As Rivarol said, 'the people did not truly desire a revolution, they desired only its sight.' The spectaclist drive is more powerful than the self-preservation instinct, you can count on that." - Jean Baudrillard, Fatal Strategies
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This makes me really happy! What a wonderful mechanical elephant!
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Sleyf has already stolen (use a loose definition) the words almost verbatim.
But I will also make a comment on those gorillas and the clock tower: Beautiful!
Steampunk Zoo? How awesome would that be?
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Wow it's beautiful, I love the colours and the painting, and the little snippet of text fits it perfectly! I love the way you designed the steam elephant
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