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@WintEagle - words cannot express my gratitude. Thank you so much for this piece, the invisible imagination. Thrilled to have it in my collection. Consciousness is officially in my favorites as well.
One of my key objectives has been to somehow commission a piece of art from @toadswiback who I think is one of the greatest artists in any format cataloguing the death of the American Dream and the sad reality of ordinary lives lived in ordinary places, without much hope left.
Die with the most likes' work somehow blends the miserable blandness of lives just...sort of... lived.. but with a strong sense of fondness for it all. Dystopian, warped reality through a fond smile. It is not so much judgemental as just observing and trying to search for the emotion behind it all... good and bad.
He also writes prose like a poet and most of his descriptions are haunting, and often form the beginning of his journey before he creates the art itself. Its a unique process.
But more than that, his work leans also heavily into absurdness through deep characterisation such as the legendary Alfonso Knutson.
But very few lovers of Die's work realise that many of the characters and scenes spread across his many books (both short stories and long novels) which take in even more parts of the absurd world of middle America and American culture, often with a hat tip to Steven Seagal's movies or other cultural references. He has an aging YouTube Channel that also adds to his body of the bizarre.
His art and the message he is getting across is all encompassing, spreading every medium including exceptional painting too. The breadth and depth is staggering. He has to be one of the most important artists working today.
Die kindly agreed to a commission with the brief of "push yourself to do something you want to do that is different".
The resultant piece "chalk it up to the hole in the yard" is a new departure for him but is well withing his frame of reference. It is a sad, grim hautning piece reflecting on the sadness of a family death, the pointlessness of life thereafter and the banality of life. It is pure emotion.
I'll add the description below in a additional post because it is both long but important to read to understand the piece itself and the emotion. As ever the prose is exceptional.
In his spare time, Die with the most likes is also oddly a very lovely person.
We are so fucking back, it's fucking entirely over. Thank you @toadswiback !