Swedish artist, musician, and author Simon Stålenhag loves leftovers. No, not the type your mom used to make you eat that combined remnants of former dinners into a jumbled together meal, but husks of humankind’s technology rusting on the sides of dusty roads and amid barren fields in somber haunting landscapes. His dystopian universe of a decaying alternate '80s and '90s is filled with abandoned robots, discarded machines, and forgotten battle drones of a sorrowful bygone era.
Stålenhag’s surreal retro-futuristic art book, "The Electric State," tells the story of a young girl and a little yellow advertising robot traversing the country in 1997 to locate her missing brother in the aftermath of a devastating humans vs robots war.
