Deep One or Cyberpunk Assassin - Copyright Danielle Tunstall - All rights reserved
Part of a series of images from the liquid metal, carbo-plastic, hydrogel and permacrete core of visual creators on the Internet. Images that stir my senses and evoke plots and concepts for what I’d like to see (or fear) in the future.
Yet another gem from the seriously talented (and twisted) eye of Danielle Tunstall. There is something very captivating about the image and for me, takes my imagination down two specific routes of inspiration. One is the cold, brutish scene of a highly skilled, clinically efficient private killer approaching target; he’s wearing a self-contained respiration unit, probably with sonar and visual augmentation to help navigate the waters that are gritty from sand churned up in the wash. He’s now part-way out of the water and has paused, waiting to complete a survey of the terrain and looking for security systems operating through invisible light, microwave and laser mediums. Out of sight, beneath the water is the compact and small calibre automatic or a serrated ceramic fighting knife he’ll use for the kill.
Alternatively, it’s something from the deep. Not entirely human. A hybrid. Monstrous father and human mother. It wears the mask to conceal the distorted aspect of its head from possible observers, and to facilitate breathing in the darker, much deeper regions of the oceans where it has just returned from – part of a pilgrimage offering supplication to Mother Hydra and Father Dagon.
Danielle Tunstall has a vast repository of images she’s created and showcasing on her website, definitely worth a look if you’re into the darker side of Cyberpunk, verging on horror, smeared in blood and infection.
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