notes: i've often been accused of not finishing sketches. well, here's finally a finished sketch. this art piece is based on the 21 grams experiment.
This illustration centers around a doctor, in full scrubs, with their back to the audience. The overall color palette of this artwork is a light yellow-green, green-blue grays, and dark gray-brown.
The doctor are pulling on a sheet over a body on the operating table. Over both the body and the doctor looms a non-descript humanoid giant, with their hands almost cradling both ends of the table. There are bright electric bolts, starting from the giant and jumping around the canvas. Some of the bolts end in the giant's hands. The central bolt goes from where the heart would be on the giant to where the body's mouth would be and is the only one that is directly connected to both on the canvas.
At the bottom, next to the doctor, is a handwritten statement. First in larger text: "What is the weight of a human soul? One fringe experiment alleged that a human soul weighed an average of 21 grams." The statement continues in smaller text: "although this was disproved, do we wish that there is a tangible presence, within our flesh, of our humanity? that we started in this world without emptiness? the alternative is harder to contemplate, the thought that people are born empty and live, and die, without ever finding something to fill that emptiness."