Chic N Wise

“The art of deception is comparable to pottery. It requires incredible patience and care, as any cracks in the base can bring devastating destruction to the piece.” – Me, because I’m wise.

“Also, it’s a lot of fun” – Also me.

This is the greatest piece I have ever made in my lifetime. In total, it took about 3 hours and 30 minutes to make, but I didn’t create it all in one session. I started the piece on November 7th, 2025, and I only got around to finishing it on February 4th, 2026. Moreover, the artwork went through numerous revisions along the way. The chicken is the only part of the artwork that I drew well the first try, and that’s probably because I’ve drawn HUNDREDS of chickens leading up to this point.

The name may seem a bit strange at first, but like any good artwork, the name comes with a story.

After I drew the chicken, I decided to show it to my friends. Here’s what they saw.

“Awww, it’s adorable!”

“Wait, you drew that?? Like YOU did that?? No AI?? Really?? That’s incredible!!

Oh, the sweet, innocent souls. My only regret is not showing the original, innocent chicken to more of my peers before subjecting them to the final result.

“…art is subjective, art is subjective, art is subjective…”

“Oh… oh no.”

*sniff* “…you made a tear shed from my manly eyes…” *sniffle*

Of course, some of my peers are also the men in “some men just want to watch the world burn”

“Hehe that’s GREAT”

“Yeah that’s REALLY GOOD”

Of course, I DO have a much more artistic and complicated explanation.

“The oblivion in the eyes of the fowl illustrates the lack of warning from the caretaker, implying that the caretaker purposefully deceived the chicken over the duration of it’s entire lifetime. This creates a feel of innocence in the chicken, which counteracts the implied evil of the caretaker for committing an act of such cruelty.”

Sadly, it’s extremely dull and filled with deception in itself. The idea of the caretaker deceiving the chicken over the duration of he chicken’s entire lifetime is an almost baseless assumption, and I certainly don’t believe that killing chickens is some sort of sin or form of cruelty. In the context of a farm for meat, keeping the chickens from the knowledge of their demise is probably for the best.

If they’re stressed, the meat’s gonna be chewy, of course.

Moving on, the dishonesty of the explanation may be what makes it perfect. Like the artwork itself, the explanation is not designed to explain anything. It is designed to be deception.