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    This Is What Modern Life Really Looks Like, According To An Illustrator (STEVE CUTTS)

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    Steve Cutts is an illustrator who focuses on "the more broken aspects of life" in modern society through his vivid yet disturbing artwork. His illustrations depict themes like poverty, corruption, greed, overdependence on technology, and environmental exploitation. Though grotesque, Cutts' images are also infused with absurdity and humor. While some pieces criticize unsustainable practices like smartphone manufacturing, Cutts notes they are not intended as an entirely negative view of humanity. His art aims to start conversations about addressing the "unquestionable insanity" prevalent in today's social and economic systems.

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    Steve Cutts is an illustrator who focuses on "the more broken aspects of life" in modern society through his vivid yet disturbing artwork. His illustrations depict themes like poverty, corruption, greed, overdependence on technology, and environmental exploitation. Though grotesque, Cutts' images are also infused with absurdity and humor. While some pieces criticize unsustainable practices like smartphone manufacturing, Cutts notes they are not intended as an entirely negative view of humanity. His art aims to start conversations about addressing the "unquestionable insanity" prevalent in today's social and economic systems.

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    Steve Cutts is an illustrator who focuses on "the more broken aspects of life" in modern society through his vivid yet disturbing artwork. His illustrations depict themes like poverty, corruption, greed, overdependence on technology, and environmental exploitation. Though grotesque, Cutts' images are also infused with absurdity and humor. While some pieces criticize unsustainable practices like smartphone manufacturing, Cutts notes they are not intended as an entirely negative view of humanity. His art aims to start conversations about addressing the "unquestionable insanity" prevalent in today's social and economic systems.

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    This Is What Modern Life Really Looks Like,

    According To An Illustrator (STEVE CUTTS)


    Looking at these illustrations, it’s hard to ignore the pitfalls (CAPCANA) of modern society.
    By Katherine Brooks

    STEVE CUTTS
    Illustrator Steve Cutts has a rather morbid fascination with “the more broken
    aspects of life.” His artworks, brightly colored and meticulously detailed,
    tend to revolve around poverty, corruption, greed, social media,
    consumerism, dependence and drugs ... just to name a few.
    STEVE CUTTS
    From a trio of humanoid robots operated by cats, to a crowd of zombies too preoccupied
    with their cell phones to look for brains, to an overweight man in a shiny car being hoisted
    by a group of skeletal laborers — the graphic works are just as captivating as they are
    hard to look at. Gluttony, sloth, greed (APETIT MAXIM, LENE MAXIMA, LACOMIE, ); all
    the sins of contemporary culture are on display, wrapped up in expressive drawings that
    prompt viewers to chuckle, scratch their heads and pray for the future of humanity all at
    the same time.

    In an email interview with The Huffington Post, London-based Cutts explained that the
    main focus of his illustration work is the “unquestionable insanity” that infiltrates the
    systems governing our daily lives. “We live in a world where it’s extremely hard to
    compete in our market ethically, and producing something without exploitation of people or
    environment seems impossible,” he noted. “So people compromise on values and
    rationalize it somehow, because otherwise you have to break with society.”

    And this kind of compromising can look pretty bleak.


    STEVE CUTTS
    Yet, while Cutts uses his illustrations to reflect on the way we as a society collectively live
    our lives, the images are not necessarily meant to represent one uniformly negative view
    of human existence. They may be grotesque, but they’re also cut with absurdity and comic
    relief that hardly dooms us all to dystopia.

    “I’ve made a few pieces about mobile phones and social media, but this isn’t to say those
    things are necessarily bad in their entirety,” Cutts confessed. “They have their benefits
    obviously, but it’s a comment on our unhealthy dependence on them, their power over us
    or their unsustainable manufacturing process that I’m focusing on in those pieces.”
    STEVE CUTTS
    At the end of the day, many of Cutts’ illustrations differ in style, with some leaning toward
    two-dimensional cartoonish scenes and others favoring realism and an eye for
    perspective. Some pieces take months to complete, lingering in Cutts’ rotation until a fresh
    idea seals their fate, while others take just a couple of days to complete.
    But, despite the intense aesthetic variation, one theme rings true: Cutts draws things
    that affect us all, directly or indirectly. And to prove he’s not all fire and brimstone, he left
    us with a few words of wisdom for illustrators who, like him, want to move from the world
    of large creative agencies to the realm of independent freelance:

    “I’d say follow jailbreak rules,” he advised. “Prepare for a few months before making the
    move, develop a strong portfolio of varied skills, get a few contacts before you leave, have
    at least a few K in the bank in case of hard times ... and have patience ... it’s the norm to
    take on some less than ideal jobs at the start.”

    “Obviously there’s a lot of illustrators/content creators out there,” he added, “so any way
    you can stand out from the crowd go for it.”

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