The photo above from the popular video game Halo Wars, portrays a horrific future in which humans are far beyond war with each other, but in war with creatures from other planets. Although this idea is far off, and quite possibly imaginary, it provokes thoughts that makes one imagine a future where Earth's resources really are depleted and force us to go else-where to discovery other forms of survival. I personally think it is scary to think about a home away from home. When seeing films or video games portraying what the future could be like, makes me think of how advanced other beings could be out there. How behind are humans since we are in reality a primitive species.
It seems as though the purpose of the work is to target that humans may be in danger. By showing the dreary destructed background shows a future of chaos. The work achieves this purpose through dark colors and making the scene look messy. Seeing the soldier in a position, running away from the beast in the background creates a sense of urgency as well, because the beast seems to be advanced in technology with the weapons in its hands. This does however reveal that the present is possibly spiraling downwards. Potentially showing that humans are over-using the resources of mother earth, and may eventually have to move elsewhere, thus having to deal with other species in the galaxy. It does also make people's minds go haywire at the thought that we may one day be running away from such creatures. Maybe their planets will be ones that deplete their resources faster than we do, and in turn they might come to Earth. How quickly I begin to think of the universe as a whole when I think about what else is out there in the galaxy.
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