• obligatory LOTR reference - Gimli cutting off Frodo's hands - "just a precaution, Frodo"
• fear garden vocaloid
• portal effect - 2 states
  • rich/poor
  • rich/dead
  • artist/poor

Trouble here is that it is difficult to avoid open criticism or falling into stereotypes

• ecology / brexit - popular opinions
• television / social media / advertising - brainwashing / trepanning / lobotomy
• time - hurry,productivity,inertia,consume,obey

Perhaps more along the lines of aftermath, whatever the cause.

• desolate city-scape
• "whatever we did, we knew better"

really want to do something with kinematics though, a mindless automaton.

• clickbait (whack-a-bait)
• clickbait (shy)
• flower that closes
• fireflies

of course, could totally have used the cover for amnésie.

futilite,pointless. Cycle of construction / destruction.

• pink floyd

• frozen in time
• pause / glitch

Again, smoking is a no-brainer. So something on pollution. Aphonia.

although, we should take into account that it is also user interaction that creates the pollution.

• Animated Object
• programs are modern day spells
• black mirror

• frail sanity
• casting shadow or apparition?

• strange fruit
• the pit and the pendulum

• artificial intelligence
• fractals
• escher

• white noise
• snow globe
• footprints

No comment. Dragons are fun.

• nuclear fallout
• disintegration

• worm vines
• glasshouse

• Peau d'âne

Opposed to civilised.

• cage
• lightning

• head mounts
• serial killer collection

• Altruism
• Anarchy

• space travel

• the road to success is paved with other people's failures
• tread water to stay afloat

• digital / virtual
• blockchain

• old school computer
• cthulhu

• optical illusion
• kaleidoscope

• industrial processed food
• food porn
• gallery
• speech bubble

• underground cavern / sewer

Covering up something, it's more what / who is inside that is of interest

• murder scene
• layers

• exoskeleton design
• roller coaster

• heartless

• catch-22 : you can't make a living as an Artist because your work is only worth something after you're dead
• catch-22 : you can't be a professional artist because...