Digital painting by @misterbezold 300 DPI—3.000x5.250 Pixels—PNG

A group of mounted, mustached guardians adorned in vibrant, abundant floral patterns wear a series of strikingly stern expressions—hinting at the duality of their nature.

Protectors and harbingers, onboarding violence into the digital realm.

Seemingly innocuous; however, they are at all times, authorized to shoot.

misterbezold (X: @johnbezold/johnbezold.com) is a Dutch-American artist, living in Amsterdam, whose work explores the presence of the past in the present.