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'Dystopian Progress'
A dark, surrealistic, mixed media painting depicts a flooded, dystopian landscape under a stormy, reddish-brown sky with the blood-red word "PROGRESS!!" splashed across the top. The scene is bisected by a sharply contrasting light-blue water line that runs diagonally from upper left to lower right.

Above the water line on the far left, a clean, white, modern city with towering buildings suggests a pristine urban environment. This city also appears again, in a smaller form, on the right-hand side, further in the distance. Below the water line, a polluted, murky, green-purple landscape with smoke stacks and oil rigs symbolizes industrial decay.

In the center, large, stylized white buildings with curved, organic forms are surrounded by skeletal, leafless trees. Nearby, a row of dark, rectangular monoliths, some partially submerged in the water, feature Roman numerals such as "X", "XI", and "XXI". These monoliths seem to be sinking, with red, inverted shopping carts floating ominously around them.

The water surface is glossy, reflecting the distorted shapes of the buildings and trees. A small wooden rowboat with a lone, faceless figure—their head completely blacked out—