Simon’s barbarian world has been placed or misplaced in the 1980s probably to reassure us that some last minute time-warp has saved us from the fate of decaying technological civilizations that trusted their own freedom to AI and the machines and the rise and fall of generations
Fantastic hyper realistic brush strokes and a mastering of ambience and light just to remind us that art knows no rules or borders as much as pixels in photography can go wild regardless of schools and principles
This is an enthralling world that is both a prison and the escape from itself
We are riveted to these disturbing pictures, yet the AI and robots gone wild seem somewhat more reassuring than the 2016 humans
Now open your eyes for the take-off

January 1st 2016