A triumphant tribute to cyberpunk and dystopian imagery, Visor by Ontario-based artist Michah Dowbak aka Mad Dog Jones, explores the dichotomous relationships between nature and technology. Through Dowbak’s innovative uses of technology, he conceptually and visually negotiates the boundaries of digital art, taking inspiration from Japanese animation, metropolitan settings, and natural phenomena. The digital realities he creates articulate an alternate realm in which the viewer experiences a dystopian path-simultaneously uncannily familiar and disturbingly otherworldly. Mad Dog Jones renders a light and color study of the face inside a motorcycle helmet within the present work, illustrating a vivid and captivating visualization of the metropolitan aesthetic.

Visor is an important artwork from Mad Dog Jones’ 2019 Tokyo exhibition ‘AFTERL-IFE WORLD,’ a series that contemplates an amalgam of alternate realities; the hyphen in the title points to the unexpected breaks in life, moments of pause and reflection. Visor emphasizes the moments in life to reflect and examine art, quotidian life, and our world. Highlighting the neon-accented hues and striking animation that compose the present work, Dowbak explains, “I have always found beauty in colors with backlighting. There is a mystical power in colors that emits light via power. NFT’s have allowed me to distribute my art to collectors in its natural form.” Deftly integrating reality and the surreal imagined universe of the present work, Visor embodies the themes and virtuosity that characterize Mad Dog Jones as a leading NFT artist.