A Visual Manifesto in a World Losing Its Way
We live in a time where division is celebrated and empathy is dismissed.
Where social media rewards outrage over kindness.
Where corporations thrive while the planet suffocates under plastic, smoke and profit margins.
📌 The loudest voice wins.
📌 The wealthiest decide the rules.
And our children?
They get the bill.
In a deserted, crumbling world, a boy sits down — exhausted.
His loyal dog by his side, both wrapped in repurposed dream: astronaut suits.
Hope feels distant.
Then it lands.
A small colorful bird — a spark of life in a dead, grey city — chooses him.
Not the last billionaire.
Not the biggest machine.
But a child.
This bird is no dove from sacred scriptures,
but a reborn symbol:
Nature has the final word.
Not us.
The Boy in the Suit
The astronaut suit symbolises the ultimate childhood dream — reaching higher, exploring the unknown.
In this story, that dream becomes survival armor.
A repurposed hope.
His dog — a best friend who doesn’t abandon when the world does — keeps him human.
If this boy were completely alone, the picture would be pure tragedy.
With his dog, it becomes resilience.
Art as the Final Breath
Even when the world breaks down under greed
— under hatred, ego, and short-term thinking —
art persists.
If society forgets how to feel,
children will remind us.
If we bury beauty under concrete and capitalism,
nature will dig it out.
As long as someone looks at a bird and thinks:
“Wow.”
hope survives.
Manifest · The Last Children
This artwork is part of Olafique,
my collection inspired by the cinematic storytelling of Erwin Olaf —
poetry in darkness, unease made beautiful.
This piece was never created for commercial goals.
It was created to start conversations.
💎 The high-resolution artwork is available for free download.
Print it, hang it, share it —
as long as the message travels with it.
AI assisted only as a tool in my hands, not as the artist.
3D, digital compositing, manual refinement —
an image built, not churned out.
The artwork will also appear on Werk aan de Muur/ArtHeroes and Fine Art America,
not for profit —
but as amplifiers of the message.
Art can save what words no longer can.
Download the high resolution image here.
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