Let's Have A Cocktail

It's not Easter yet, it's just Good Friday today, but I see no reason not to have a cocktail. I mean an art cocktail, of course, what were you thinking?

The truth is, there's always a lot of photos left unposted in each folder and not that I have to post them all, but it's fun to mix style and medium, to bring more fun to you.

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So let's mix another cocktail, shall we?

Let's start with this riddle as it was left to us to decide what we see here. It is the work of Simion Moldovan. A big, cracked wooden head on a pallet, with a yellow kid sitting on it. It can mean anything, from a thinking soul to a new life built on old experience, you tell me.

Another work of the same artist. This work was a tribute to a famous artist, just forgot who it was as I got so much information in a short period from a domain that I have so limited knowledge of, that I could not keep everything in mind, so it's up to you to tell me what it means.

Zsuzsanna Sztanó - No Title

Could be a part of a forest during winter, when branches are naked, or could as well be a part of a fence, those you see made of branches in the tropics.

I see it as a barrier in any case, as you can't slip through it, made to stop everyone.

Zoltán Zörgő Szőcs - War

Exactly what it looks like. Life is not easy these days as we're suffering the consequences of war and the worst is yet to come, but in the animal word, war is not something unusual. You fight to survive. Kill or be killed, that's how it works and this artwork shows it in the best way.

Mana Bucur - AI (Antic Intelligence)

I'm not sure if this is a mocking of AI (artificial intelligence), but I like it. At first I thought the two holes are bullet holes, but there were no such bullets we use today back in those days, so most likely they are not. I like how the head is sliced and it makes you think of those mummies wrapped in gauze. Even the texture of the head has the texture of gauze.

And here comes the trick, the head is two faced and the other one is not covered by anything, perhaps it has its natural color. This could symbolize how people have two faces, one, the real face, which would be the brown one I suppose, and another face for the world, wrapped, covered to hide what needs to be hidden.

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Mana Bucur - AI (Artificial Intelligence)

And here's the contrast, the exact opposite of the previous one. At first I was thinking artificial intelligence doesn't have two faces, just one, but I was wrong, it has as many faces as you want. You just have to redefine and adjust the prompt and you can be whoever you want to be. Or AI can make you be whoever you want to be.