Happy Halloween weekend!
Even though I have never celebrated Halloween, I thought it would be good practice to try coming up with a burger art concept for Halloween.
I already had an idea for a horror back story of the burger character, simply because life as a burger would be horrific. People trying to eat you all the time, and you would rot over time and be less desirous (but it would be better for you?)
I’m just imagining that in burger world, if you were to ‘dress up as something horrific’ — you would dress up as a burger box, a simulation of torture (getting eaten), and a weapon of choice would be a frying pan, or a steak knife, maybe.
I saw this Vogue cover a while back and this vivid imagery of a lone character with a mirror in the midst of a vast field has stayed at the back of my mind.
It evoked some sense of self-reflection or search for identity, a character questioning the reality of who they are and what their true purpose is.
Super early drafts — I did a mockup with Reipart_’s free grassfield geonodes. These were only available in Eevee rendering engine, which was a big departure from the style that I was comfortable doing in Cycles render engine.
I drew inspiration of the subtext after being obsessed with the Neon Genesis Evangelion theme song ‘A Cruel Angel’s Thesis’, and I found a remix of it with the Barbie song, and I couldn’t believe how good it was.
The cover art for the remix was done by an artist gloominny, which along with the subtext ‘What was I made for?’ captured the existential angst really well. Am I saying that a burger character can resonate deeply with a Barbie doll? Maybe I should stop writing now
It was great conversing with ChatGPT about burger existentialism. But I eventually did go for the generic ‘What was I made for?’ for an open interpretation.
I am tasty, therefore I am
Am I just a fleeting flavour?
Do I exist to be consumed?
Am I condemned to be consumed?
Is taste the only truth?
Will I ever be more than a meal?
Am I anything more than a mere meal?
Is the knife my only certainty?
Am I the main course?
— ChatGPT and me
Art is available on mallow.art