There's bad stuff happening all the time – a moment's glance at the headlines of the news will tell you that. But you know what's not bad? A non-exhaustive list:
Bikes.
Kids.
Art.
What better way to dispel the dread of the age than combining those three?
Bikes are, of course, notoriously hard to draw – it's one of the holdouts that AI has not yet mastered in its quest to crush the creative industries. But there's another thing that the computers can't do, and that's bring adorable humanity to their creations. The clumsy wobbles of a wheel; the implausible geometry of a bicycle sketched by a primary school-aged child.
Are these machines rideable? Probably not! Do people actually look like that? Approximately, but only barely. Is there a deeper underlying meaning to these works – the intersection between a dystopian future and an idealised past, say, or the guiding influence of the early Impressionists? Doubtful.
Counterpoint: here are a dozen works painstakingly crafted by brilliant young hands, guided by brilliant young minds. Could this be any more wholesome? Nope.
We have called on our children (and after putting the call out to our Discord community, those of our members) to produce their best Bicycle Art – some of it organically created ahead of now, some of it commissioned specifically for this piece. I think we can agree that the results are, each in their own unique way, a perfect little timeline cleanser.
Welcome to the inaugural Escape Collective Bicycle Art Show.
You want to see some very wholesome drawings of bikes? Of course you do! Join us as a member: Escape Collective is 100% membership-funded, with no advertising and no affiliate links in our product reviews.
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