This series was one of my original creations with the generative A.I. toolset using a new graphics workstation.
This series of images suggests a decaying character, originally sourced from the large mass media houses, photo-aged and burnt out from overuse, then transformed and twisted into a new, darker character.
A “Mickey Finn” references a drink laced with an incapacitating agent, particularly chloral hydrate, given to someone without their consent with the intent to incapacitate them or “knock them out”.
The drink was given to sailors on hiatus from commercial merchant ships, who when ordering a drink would be drugged and trafficked by being brought onto other ships as unpaid crew without their consent.
This reportedly happened to one of my 19th-century sailor ancestors who were tricked into thinking they were getting rewarded for their hard work and instead found themselves, slaves, on a ship going in a direction they did not want.
This metaphor of an animated mouse, an innocuous, entertaining television character, mutating into a sinister, manipulating cult figure is central to the Mickey Finn series.
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