"Amputation Freakworld" by SIFT (2025)
This is an edit of one of my drawings that I was playing around with yesterday. I want to start doing more blog posts featuring my art, and was tossing up just how involved about describing it all to get.
The process usually involves starting out with one of my drawings or photos, or an edit of a found image, and then using about half a dozen different apps to edit it, before saving the final copy in a relatively small 750 x 750 px size, and signing it with the www.sift.co.nz URL of my blog.
So I could potentially post images from each stage of the editing, describing how it was done. But that might get anal and boring. I'm not trying to reveal a conspiracy here, and have nothing to prove. So I'm not going to do that, but am just going to post the finished image with a title and year. I'm also not going to try an explain what any of them mean, because I usually have no idea.
Having said that, I think this particular image may have originally been triggered by seeing a bunch of diabetes patients in wheel chairs at the hospital, with their legs amputated (another horrible medical scam). But everything I come up with as far as art goes is like a dream, which I don't really understand, so am probably best off not to attempt to explain.
I'm just having a bit of fun with these pictures and they are not intended to be in any way professional "art works" for sale. They are also not NFT's, because although I'm into crypto trading, I think NFT's are just a massive scam. I think regular cryptos are as well really, but I draw the line at meme-coins & NFT's, and stick to trading top 100 by market cap cryptos, which I've sometimes done well with over the past decade.
NFT's are non-fungible tokens which include assets like artworks or digital content that has been tokenized via a blockchain. These tokens have unique identification codes and are stored on a digital ledger. They can be traded and exchanged for money, cryptocurrencies, or other NFTs. Whoever has the private keys to a token owns the rights to it.
Cryptocurrencies are similar to NFTs, in that both are secured on blockchain networks. The key difference is cryptocurrencies are fungible, or interchangeable. There is no real difference between one bitcoin and another, for example, but no two NFTs are identical.
