Lights are on but the Home is Nobody's

A near-future depiction of New York with drones that have been biologically enhanced to give it a more organic look, this becomes slightly nightmarish in a large city where the drones and seemingly everywhere and now the only human has to wear a mask to deal with the increasingly polluted air.

This artwork is featured in Lil Diamond Smith's Book "Futurist: New York Edition." available on Amazon and Apple.

Location

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Inspired by the 2022 poem of the same name by Lil Diamond Smith. The artwork portrays deftly drawn characters and caricatures, surprising comical delights amid the backdrop of the hustle of New York life. Using a range of approaches from expressionism to psychotropic nightmare fantasy, this collection evokes the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of their generally ambitious, disillusioned, desperate characters who are trying to survive in a city that becomes increasingly more demanding. The collection specialises particularly in revealing the illusions about advanced digital life―a museum attacked by drones, a financier stressed to the point of fury and the statue of liberty circled by drones.