Xeon Jungle 2018

Beeple made this digital image, Xeon Jungle, and it looks like it’s been pulled from the future. It's all luminous pinks and blues that give the palms a kind of ghostly energy. I can imagine Beeple starting with a basic landscape, but he’s not satisfied with just representing what’s there. He wants to amp it up, to see it in a different light, literally. So, he throws these bands of color across the composition, these graphic bars that slice through the scene, dividing it into different zones. What does it mean to introduce such artificial elements into a natural setting? Those stark lines aren’t just decoration; they shift our perception, creating an interesting tension between the organic and the synthetic. You're almost forced to see both the beauty of the natural world and the intrusion of technology all at once. It’s like a visual metaphor for how we're constantly reshaping our environment.