“A black- and- white abstract dystopian photograph captured with a cinema- grade 12mm fisheye lens, creating a warped, immersive perspective that distorts reality. The close- up portrait of a rugged 50- year- old rural man reveals his face fragmented into disjointed rectangular sections, with his eyes, nose, mouth, and skin displaced in chaotic randomness. Within the fractured gaps, oversized crickets, their bodies in vivid green and orange, emerge, their sharp legs and antennae contrasting sharply against the monochrome tones. These crickets crawl and twitch, adding an unsettling movement to the scene. Scrawled across the composition in decayed, rotten lettering, the phrase ‘FREE PROTEINS’ oozes in a grim shade of green, amplifying the surreal, dystopian feel. The intense chiaroscuro lighting casts deep shadows, highlighting the crickets’ unnatural hues and enhancing the disturbing, nightmarish quality of the image. ”
