Introducing my latest oil painting from the "Digital Shamans" series: "Water Shaman Cleansing a Polluted River". This piece is a contemplative forest scene featuring an ageless shamaness, who sits by a watercourse, using her magic to purify the water.

The painting is a reflection of the human relationship with the life-giving resource of water. Access to clean drinking water has become a luxury. Companies like Nestlé, CocaCola, and Pepsico are buying up freshwater sources worldwide, only to sell the residents their own water in plastic bottles. Profits are valued higher than the preservation of our common basis of life in capitalism.

This painting is a call to action: boycott companies like Nestlé, CocaCola, and Pepsico. Our influence as consumers is now greater than our voice in elections.

In the creation of this painting, I collaborated closely with the AI model GPT-4 to conceive the concept, and then used the generative designer AI Midjourney to create the digital template for the oil painting. This process is a testament to the harmony that can be achieved between human and artificial intelligence.

#Art #AI #DigitalShamans #CleanWater #BoycottNestle #BoycottCocaCola #BoycottPepsico #ConsumerPower #ArtificialIntelligence #ClimateJustice

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