This is one of my favorite paintings I’ve done so far. Several years elapsed from initial sketch to finalizing on colors, but the final painting only took about a week.

The subject is admittedly cliche, but I tried to move past this by fully committing to it, so that it’s not just “that scene from Hamlet”, it’s an actual lavish production of it.

But I don’t think the robots realize it’s a cliche. They’re involved in some serious existential high art, because before we died off, we never got around to programming them to understand irony.