lighting cigars off electric chairs

“lighting cigars off electric chairs”
digital image and animation
1500 x 2094 pixels (still image)
720 x 1080 pixels (animation)
32 second loop (animation)
© 2025 patrick scheidegger

artwork – original image created by patrick scheidegger, m.f.a., is a black and white image featuring an electric chair in the center with sparks, arcs, and bolts of electricity shooting from the wires and connections of the empty electric chair with the controls right behind the chair; the typical giant electric switch, and standing next to the chair and in front of the controls is Fidel Castro, the previous dictator of Cuba; and he is lighting one of his famous fat Cuban cigars off the sparks emitted from the electric chair