The Happiest Digger is at once a comment on humanity's destructive nature, and yet strikes an optimistic note — maybe progress isn't so bad after all. The image is also a reflection on the inner state of mind of a seemingly inanimate machine. Does the machine spoil the view, or is it the view?

The image was constructed from a number of digital photographs that were combined and then overlaid with a custom style-transfer neural network. The original images have been destroyed, leaving this as the only true original.