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Curator: Immediately, I’m struck by the oppressive heat of this piece. It’s like standing too close to something burning—there's this intensity of color, of… decay, maybe? What's your take? Editor: We’re looking at an untitled oil painting, believed to be by Zdzislaw Beksinski. And yes, I feel it too, the crimson dominates, hinting at a deep, maybe violent symbolism. A narrative unfolds here—blocks, screens even, descend upon a dark procession, creating a top-heavy, precarious… what, a monument? Curator: Precarious is spot on. The precariousness screams "everything will crumble.” The narrative art at play… those floating blocks like fragmented memories, the kind that haunt you, bits and pieces flickering on a screen, not whole, distorted. What could those descending blocks stand for, to you? Editor: Each carries a visual burden – faces, glyphs, icons, lost symbols from countless forgotten religions—fragments of an entire culture plunging downward! A rain of relics, landing amongst figures marching towards something dark. This procession looks ritualistic, and is maybe a march to the same void as the cascading debris, but what exactly I can't make out. I'm really struck by the single person riding down on one of the blocks. Is it a last desperate clinging before the end, or maybe that rider is the cause? Curator: What is the cause? The rider! What a potent image, is it resignation, doom, acceptance? Perhaps both? Is this fantasy art a vision of entropy? A symbolic oil painting that speaks to this constant state of transformation... or decline? There is beauty in it. This destruction is as natural as a flower blossoming; you feel it. Beksinski evokes a powerful narrative from so many different mediums. Editor: Entropy perhaps isn't always inherently negative—transformation creates openings as things end—and it can become visually stunning too! Like now! We're left to contemplate what collapses, what might survive the crash, and maybe even find beauty amongst the ruins and find symbols that speak of cyclical continuity and even rebirth.