Top 10 Picks by jhsilvis70

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Weekly Top 10 Picks by jhsilvis70 (@SilvisJohn)

Mosquito Acid Valley by @trochut

Mosquito Acid Valley is an image created for the legendary Italian parties of 2005. I was invited to take on the character created by @superexpresso and remix it into a gravity zero moment of euphoria, love, and psychedelia. At the time, I was very interested in the use of digital airbrushing in Photoshop, and combining them with fluid shapes and cartoonish surreal images. /// I’m committing 10% of my gross sale of these works to Carbon180, a climate nonprofit working to create a world that removes more carbon than it emits.

Catch the mole by @stefanocolferai

After exchanging glances several times, Tom and Lucy finally decide to meet for the first time at the carnival. She would like to escape and go elsewhere but something is holding her back, and she will probably watch Tom play to ‘Catch the mole’ endlessly continuing to chewing her cotton candy.

The Dreamer by @codyseekins

A boy finds himself within a vision of animated mutations. Their forms encroach so much they threaten to overwhelm him. At left are a mass of denizens, exhibiting mammalian, fungal, plant, snake, and bird characteristics, all in the process of a slow fermenting metamorphosis. The least mutated member of the group is a crow, mouth open and facing vertically in a soundless “kaw!” as it is absorbed into the mass. At lower right is a particularly toothy creature; something akin to a giant chlorophyll green membrane, thick and embedded with innumerable moving eyes setting above a dark maw passively laying in wait. In the middle beyond the young man an entity yawns wide a beak-ish mouth, around which are more spiny and pincer-like projections branching out of a segmented green skin existing corporeally somewhere between amphibian and plant. Its teeth are like maize covered in a thin cataract. It jiggles its beak and moves its pincers in a display that is somewhere between creepy and silly. Further still in the distance are a variety of strange sparkling eyes and a mushroom cap with human teeth. Hovering before the boy is a psychedelic alien, communicating via its manifestation as a nexus of colors, forms, and shapes spanning the spectrum from butterfly to bird to fish to mandrake vegetation and more. Its left side precipitates into glowing blue-green worm-like transparent fingers, from which a dancing broadcast of blue filamented energy engages the boy’s mind. The alien is dynamic in its expression, from blue auras, to busy writhing digits, to a radial fin that illuminates, to three upward facing beaks emitting energetic particles. Haloing the boy’s head is a dim cratered moon setting against a dark starry sky. His eyes and face are illuminated by an unknown and intense multi-hued light source. His hand reaches out timidly to touch the alien vision before him. The image speaks to a reflection of how personal transformation relates to identity.