As much as I really fucking hate "fan art" and "tributes", I somehow managed to concoct this. It's a reference to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey with the monolith of the film being replaced by an iPhone, and the hominins with modern humans of varying age and reaction to the technology.

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In a horizontal orientation, the monolith is surrounded by the humans in a grayscale void, absent of color. Once outside of the immediate vicinity of the depression-inducing technology, the world is seen in color; shaped in a manner to represent a hand, yet lifeless, bleak and void of vegetation or other life.

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In it's vertical orientation, the "hand" becomes an angler fish, the shooting star behind the phone plays the part of the fish's light - mesmerizing and enticing the humans for consumption.

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The canvas has been painted in such a way to make the piece itself appear as the iPhone monolith - sides have been painted silver, the back painted to have 3 cameras, with the lenses being replaced with HALs.