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Title: Ex Machina - Black Spring
Author: pantea_dorina
Votes: 1

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Description: "Ex Machina - Black Spring" is a work that was inspired by Botticelli's work "The Coming of Spring/The Arrival of Venus", but it is made in antithesis to Botticelli's subject. "Ex Machina - Black Spring" is a contemporary interpretation of Botticelli's work similar in the placement of the characters on the canvas. Still, the way of interpreting is a modern one that alludes to racism, discrimination, consumerism, the excess and excessive convenience use of electronics, the danger of waste left behind by people, the power outages that are announced in the future, global warming, and last but not least the native beauty of black people. Compared to the other characters, the "Spring" has no defect, no member is replaced with a metal piece, and only the hair resembles high-voltage cables that supply the energy through the work. Each of the other characters becomes a cyborg from a dystopic future that has a robotic body part: hands, legs as robotic metal limbs, prosthetic fingers, spiked iron jaws, and even the voice waves of the character who blows with force towards the spring are like cables. My "Spring" is rendered as the representation of a black woman who covers her body with candor, she is represented with her eyes closed an intentional gesture through which she expresses her revolt and disgust towards what surrounds her: (PC monitors, TV, cables, radios, phones, antennas, speakers, batteries, etc.) she arrives on a cerulean blue parabolic antenna, a color that expresses energy, faith and hope for a possible better future achieved through communication.

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