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2 years ago

Two paintings, side by side, resembling the Michelangelo painting "The Creation of Adam", with two decorated hands pointing towards each other.

The left hand of the set of paintings, pointing towards the right. The hand is on a mostly grey background with a sky blue bleeding into the right edge. Gears and pulleys are covering the arm and fingers.

The right hand of the set of paintings, pointing left. A stag stands on the outstretched index finger, which is wrapped in flowering vines. The hand and arm itself are green, with a large willow tree growing from the wrist, roots hanging onto a sky blue background. Light grey bleeds at the edges of the background from the left. In the shade of the pinky finger, mushrooms grow, and trees cover the base of the forearm. A lake above these trees runs from the mountains on the forearm and spills out as a waterfall onto the background. Birds fly off of the arm underneath the forest.

“The Creation of Industrialization” (acrylic on canvas).

This was a 2 canvas co-creation by me and my friend Emma, based on Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam.” Emma painted the hand of Adam/Humanity on the left, I did the hand of God/Nature on the right.

I spent a pretty long time on mine, and there’s lots of little details that I love.