AFTER THE FLOOD
DOES GOD ENJOY SEEING HIS SERVANTS SUFFER?
Hii everyone, I'm Humansleep. This time I want to post my work again in the Alien Art Hive community. And here I will also share a work process whether it's drawing or sketching that I will later do as an effort to be seen and appreciated.
AFTER THE FLOOD
This illustration is based on my point of view as I witnessed firsthand the tense situation and conditions on the night after the flood, with cries for help echoing from all directions, enveloping the darkness and silence of the night. In my heart, I thought, “I really want to help them, but how?” And my situation was the same as theirs—those who were trapped there had absolutely no possessions or belongings that could be useful at that moment.
When I saw and heard firsthand the sad and frightening scene around me, there was only silence that night. And from behind the silence, their voices were very clear, like cries, screams of disappointment, and feelings of despair/resignation that enveloped the servants. A question suddenly crossed my mind: “Does God enjoy seeing His servants live in suffering?”
And in the end, the answer to that question came by itself, as time went by. He did not want His servants to live in such misery and chaos. And it turned out that it was not He who wanted this to happen, but His soldiers who were angry because of the actions and greed, arrogance, and pride of the humans themselves. The misery and chaos came from the hands and greed of those humans themselves, who carried out rampant and illegal deforestation. Whether it was forests that were home to animals, such as tigers, birds, monkeys, and others, or forests that were home to indigenous tribes. Their goal was to expand their mining and palm oil plantations (greedy humans).
I could only stand silently and watch the screams coming from the building where I had taken refuge. I saw several rubber boats and canoes passing by and battling the strong currents, but those in the canoes and rubber boats refused to help those who were still trapped inside their homes or on their attics.
Even though they were shouted at to immediately help the people who were still trapped, they always gave excuses, saying things like “we can't because the boat is leaking” or “we're looking for people who have been swept away” and so on... Okay, the excuse of looking for people who have been swept away might still be understandable/justifiable. However, the truth behind all those excuses is that they exploited the situation and used the rubber boat, which was supposed to be used to save lives, to carry out a looting operation. They deliberately rammed their rubber boat/canoe into the glass door of a mini-market. I got this information from people around me who were also flood victims like me.
The first night passed, and as the second night began, silence once again enveloped the area. The sound of rushing water could be heard. At first, I thought it was heavy rain, but after listening carefully and immediately running up to the rooftop to confirm and see for myself, it turned out to be the sound of extremely fast-flowing water. On the second night, the water rose very quickly, and the atmosphere that night was even more tense than the first night after the flood. Cries for help echoed from all directions, behind the darkness and enveloped by the silence of the night. We could only communicate with the other flood victims through shouts in the midst of the silence of the night. There were no other sounds that night except for cries for help. There was only the sound of the rushing water and a few shouts to communicate with each other, just to make sure everyone was okay at that moment.
And in this work of mine, I don't have any photos of the step-by-step process, because I made this work as best I could, in the midst of the flooding that occurred in my hometown, Aceh Tamiang, at the end of November 2025.
Because at that time my cell phone battery was also dead and my cell phone was completely dead.
After I managed to finish the work as best I could without the usual photos documenting the process, a few weeks later, after the flood had subsided and my cell phone was working again, using a barter system to charge it, I was only able to photograph a few situations that occurred at that time, and also asked my friends for some footage of controversial situations.
and here are the photos I got, along with their sources:
Location: As-Sunnah Mosque, Tanjung Karang.
Source: instagram 
Logs ready for transport that were washed away by the flood and piled up around the As Sunnah mosque, Tanjung Karang.
Source: instagram
Not only are there piles of logs ready for transport, but there is also footage that resembles a zombie town like in post-apocalyptic movies. Many media outlets and influencers have come to my hometown, Aceh Tamiang, and they call it a zombie town because the situation and conditions are exactly the same as in movies with a post-apocalyptic theme.
This is all I can say for right now, sorry if there are wrong words or my typing is not perfect.
Thank you for taking the time just to stop by and see my work, and see you in my next work. 🖐👽