Original artwork description:

In Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel fresco 'The Creation of Adam,' God - the spitting image of President Snow from The Hunger Games - is sparking sense into Adam via his right index finger whilst wafting around in a red velvet swirl which, according to US physician Frank Meshberger, is an accurate representation of the human brain. Because God wants to remain the Main Man the two fingers aren't quite touching, ergo, Man isn't perfect. In this updated version of the image Adam is involutarily being scraped of his knowledge by a demented AI BrainBot chuntering inanely about 'particle swarm optimisation' and 'multimodal sentiment analysis'. Again the two fingers aren't touching; AI will be even less perfect than Adam. But did MA really intend to depict God in a brain? And is it mere coincidence that the word 'brain' contains the two adjacent letters AI? And was Jean Michel Basquiat, who certainly painted on walls, if not ceilings, the new Michelangelo? I think we should be told.

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Acrylics

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