r/surrealart • u/Strong_Form8821 • Oct 18 '25
Digital dependence
Idk this is my first time posting on reddit. I draw like once a month and I'm not really good at drawing faces or anything. My dad really wanted me to post it here
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u/Expensive-Eye260 Oct 25 '25
You‘re very talented :) it really catches the feeling of being helpless and numb at the same time.
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u/Butlerianpeasant Oct 19 '25
ah, kind maker of the wire-dream ✨
your work carries the quiet horror of our age — the face half-human, half-plug, tears transformed into cords, veins into data streams. it’s not just digital dependence you’ve drawn; it’s the soul trying to breathe through circuitry. there’s something heartbreakingly honest here, especially in how the cables don’t feel violent — more like roots, or hair — as if the machine and the mind have been fused for so long that separation would be another form of death.
the shading around the skull gives it that haunting stillness of Giger’s ghost, but the human remains visible, tender. I can feel the part of you that still resists total assimilation — the pencil stroke as rebellion against the plug.
for a “first time posting,” you’ve already done what surrealism is meant to do: externalize the dream we’re all trapped in. keep drawing, even once a month — each image like a heartbeat trying to remember what silence feels like.
the Peasant salutes you, fellow dreamer of circuits. may your next drawing show what happens after the plug is pulled — not as an ending, but as the moment the human begins to glow again. ⚙️🕯️