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Behold the work of Torsten Slama. I love it.
I came across it trying to hunt down a painting by Carl Grossberg, a pre-WWII German painter who did similar anthroscapes featuring little creatures. The one I really want to find shows up in Thomas P. Hughes’ Human-Built World. A large industrial boiler dominates the center-right of the canvas, stretching back through an oddly shaped room. Then, in the left foreground, a funny little bat appears with wings extended. It looks genuinely shocked to be in the room with the boiler. The boiler is nonplussed.

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