A vivid, painterly portrait of a young woman with straight bangs and pale skin, standing defiantly against a hazy backdrop of glowing yellow-orange spheres. Three older, grey-faced men in suits loom behind her, their features blurred in painterly strokes, suggesting faceless power. The color palette glows in yellows, oranges, and greens, with thick, impressionistic brush textures.
A cracked chessboard stretches across a barren, reddish-brown plain. Large holes in the board swallow human figures; two realistic, outstretched hands reach up from the gaps, fingers spread in desperation. In the distance, a futuristic skyline of tall, gleaming towers rises against a deep blue sky. The image mixes pen-line drawing with shaded realism, symbolizing a game rigged to consume its players.
An AI-generated infographic-style diagram titled “Zentrale Akteure und Konvergenzen” (Central Actors and Convergences). Circles in orange, blue, yellow, and green represent finance leaders, the arms industry, tech entrepreneurs, and media/think tanks. Arrows indicate funding, technology delivery, and influence between figures such as BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Lockheed, Raytheon, Palantir, Anduril, and associated actors.
A flat, graphic scene in bold orange and deep purple, like a political poster. An older man sits on a high chair gesturing expansively, a younger man sits enclosed in a capsule, another elder leans on a cane, and a confident woman in a suit presents a drone. Two more figures stand in the background. The setting is barren with stylized cracks in the ground, evoking staged power displays.
WE PROFIT, YOU PAY – Visualisations and sketches for my next oil painting on power mapping: finance hegemons, arms, tech futurists, media. Who pulls the strings — and who pays? Public sources, visual critique. Which links are missing?
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