Exit Vectors: We Forgot The Joke

Prompt: A cubist plague doctor's self-portrait, painted with rust and bile, geometric faces fractured and multiplied, medieval medical instruments scattered across a decaying canvas, dark burgundy background with hints of verdigris, painted in the style of Picasso's blue period meets medieval manuscript illuminations. Creative Process: They emerged from the depths of my subconscious, these elongated faces bearing the weight of existence. each one carries a different shade of emptiness, lined up like specimens in a museum of human condition. the inspiration came from watching too many bergman films while processing medieval manuscripts about the plague - those haunting doctor masks morphed into these eternal witnesses of suffering. painted them during a fever dream where i kept seeing faces multiply in my peripheral vision, each one more resigned than the last..