It Is Sentient

by Baruska A Michalcikova

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10.000 x 10.000 inches

Title

It Is Sentient

Artist

Baruska A Michalcikova

Medium

Drawing - Sharpies, Ink Pens, Color Pencil

Description

🍁⚫️🎃The story:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A few weeks ago, I have woken up from a night of sleep. As I laid in bed, stretching in various ways, I seemed to have had a specific track stuck in my head.
I performed this particular stretch that targets the lower back, and during this stretch ~ while a part of said track played in my head ~ it ignited a vision of exactly this image/Art work.
It was quite a quick glance, within a flash... but super clear, and very vivid.

I saw 6 little blue lights in the center, within a multi layered grid.
Each layer/frame/section of the grid (there are 5 sections) was spinning ~ very slowly ~ but in the opposite direction from the other.
The center, along with the blue lights, would spin very slowly, as well.
The parts that look like hundreds of separate little sticks/bars ~ were fluctuating-pulsing-shortening and lengthening (kind of like You see on a screen where musical bars lower and highten, depending on the intensity of the track)
perfectly proportioned to ~ and across from one another ~ to the rhythm of the music track I had stuck in my head.
That music track is Mombi Yuleman’s
“Extracting the Razor Blades” ~ from his recently released, Halloween and 80s Horror Film inspired
🎃⚫️”Witch Works”⚫️🎃album. (Link to track at the bottom)

The track is about a manmade, yet sentient machine ~ designed to extract razor blades from children’s mouths/throats.
Morbid, I know. Hehe... It is a Halloween~Horror Flick inspired album, after all. And “Extracting the Razor Blades” follows right after a track called “Bad Apple”. So it makes sense, if You know the horrid tale of some 🔴bad🍎apples🔴being handed out to small children on Halloween...

Anyway~~~~~🍂

At first, I didn’t understand how the imagery connected to the track. All I knew is that upon seeing the vision, it made me *FEEEEEL ~ something deep.....
It’s the only way I’ll begin on (what I consider) *a personal piece*... Especially if the imagery is unusual.
So immediately I got started on it.

As time would go by, and I worked on it more and more, I began to understand how it all connected. Why it connected. (Which is typically how it goes ~ in my process ~ when working on something I may have had a vision of)
The Autumnal flowers🌻and foliage🍂in the black⚫️background were in the vision as well.
And it all began to make perfect sense to me.

This sentient machine, was designed to function and perform ~ to perfection.
To carefully, and strategically extract razor blades.
It first must scan🔵and fully assess the victim’s anatomy. (The blue lights, as little scanner lights, spinning in the center)
Each victim’s circumstance is unique and specific.
It is complex. And the machine must scan and graph *perfectly* not only the victim’s anatomy (throat/mouth) before it begins to operate, but also *during the operation (the extraction), as it works.
There is no room for error.
The complexity of all the details within the child’s anatomy before and during procedure is represented in the hundreds of little bars/sticks within each grid in the Art work. Fluctuating, pulsing, and spinning as the machine functions/operates with all its brilliance and precision.
The flowers and foliage represent Autumn.🍂
As in, this machine only serves its purpose in the Autumnal period. It being that only on Halloween ~ are the bad apples served/handed out.
As morbid as the concept of this track may be, it’s actually about a quite brilliant and wholesome little machine! ⚫️🍂🔵🍂⚫️

I’m so very excited, because this is the first true personal piece I have been able to do ~ since a couple of years, actually.
Sure I have completed various “doodles” or fun drawings as You may see on this site over the span of a couple of years, along with enjoyable commission pieces. But I haven’t been able to actually sit down ~ and work on one of *my own and personal* ✨Visions✨in a very, very long time.
They have been piling up, and it feels great to finally release one....Whew. ✨🧡✨

It’s incredible what imagery the brain channels and conjures up ~(whether consciously or subconsciously)~ when a series of events/sounds/smells/actions and thoughts *MERGE.
I am very grateful for it.
Grateful to have had the pleasure to work on it.
To have had something that my Partner has created, then ignite something that ultimately has inspired for me to create something of my own, as well.
Our visions have merged and bonded ~ in this very unique and extraordinary way. And it’s wonderful.
Hence why this original piece is not for sale. I had to give it to Mombi 🍂⚫️🍁😊🍁⚫️🍂
Understandably so, it is very much his, as it is mine.✨

Thank You for reading.🌻

And thank You to Mombi, for creating awesome and inspirational music!

Check out his “Extracting the Razor Blades” track, and the rest of the “Witch Works” album!🎃
https://mombiyuleman.bandcamp.com/track/extracting-the-razor-blades

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October 31st, 2019

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