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This haunting, untitled painting was made by Zdzislaw Beksinski, likely using oil on canvas, though the slickness of its surface mimics new digital means. Look closely and you can see how Beksinski deploys a precise technique to conjure this vision. The image has a rendered, almost digital feel, yet the controlled brushwork and blended surfaces demonstrate incredible skill. The texture of the imagined building is built up layer by layer, its appearance conveying decay, with its fragmented and eroded surfaces. This technique serves Beksinski's dark, apocalyptic vision, and raises an interesting question: are we looking at a premonition of a ruined past, or a future that never happened? This unsettling ambiguity is central to the work's disturbing power, and reminds us that technique and materiality have as much to do with what we feel as what we see.