Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known simply as Salvador Dalí (links to WikiPedia page) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his striking and bizarre images in his work.
Were he alive today I’m sure that smartphones, social media and the internet would have played a large part in his work where his surrealism would have merged with dystopian scenes.
Dali-inspired dystopian art merges Salvador Dalí’s surrealism (melting clocks, dreamscapes, meticulous detail) with dystopian themes (decay, oppressive futures, AI horrors, societal collapse), creating eerie, nightmarish visions where familiar objects are distorted in bleak, futuristic landscapes.
We interpret this piece as a cynical view of what technology is doing to us: that our phones are the ones in control, there are eyes watching us everywhere, technology is making us angry and mean, time is melting away, and that no-one is really addressing the elephant in the room… or in this case–the elephants with giraffe legs:)
We feel however that it speaks volumes.