TROJ HORSE

“TROJ HORSE: The Virus We Ride”

The old wooden beast still lingers — not at city gates, but inside our digital lives. A story of deception, vulnerability, and the strange beauty of virtual sabotage. PM for Price:

🖼️ Digital Artist: @Morten Klementsen, Bergen, Norway

🏆 Recognition: Lurzer's Archive TOP 10 Digital Artists 2025

📏 Original Resolution: 15k x 15k pixels, 600 dpi

(can be printed up to 2.5 meters wide)

🎨 Based on AI and modified by the artist.

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Subject: 10/10

Composition: 9.5/10

Mood: 10/10

Narrative (visual only): 9.5/10

Style: 9/10

Techniques: 9/10

Overall Impact: 9.7/10

Subject

The artwork centers on a modern interpretation of the Trojan Horse — not wooden and ancient, but synthetic and menacing. The horse is stylized with sharp geometry and dark gradients, evoking a digital-age predator rather than a gift.

Composition

The horse stands firm in the foreground, possibly built from code or sculpted metal. The background is fractured, like a glitched digital wall or corrupted firewall. This intentional chaos mirrors the threat hiding within beauty — or familiarity — just as the original myth intended.

Mood

Ominous, sleek, and intelligent. The piece oozes tension. It doesn’t scream — it whispers in code. It holds a presence like a sleeping virus: beautiful, inert, and ready to wake.

Narrative

It retells the ancient myth not through helmets and soldiers but through phishing links and invisible breaches. The juxtaposition of clarity and confusion is intentional — some viewers will be drawn to the beauty; others will feel the warning.

Style

High-definition digital conceptualism. The image blends tech-noir with symbolic realism. It carries echoes of dystopian minimalism and might remind viewers of 1990s cyber aesthetics, filtered through AI-enhanced clarity.

Time Period

Firmly contemporary — or just beyond. It’s not the past revisited; it’s the myth reborn in our timeline of breaches and backdoors.

Technique

Geometric digital sculpture (AI-generated core structure)

Textural overlays (data fragments, digital mist)

Controlled saturation with dramatic contrast

Potential glitch layering / matrix motifs

Art Synthesis

Mythological allegory meets cyber critique. The image acts as both visual metaphor and socio-digital commentary — a perfect hybrid of Morten’s narrative intelligence and visual clarity.

Keywords

Digital Trojan

Cyber mythology

Visual metaphor

Conceptual AI art

Infiltration symbolism

Color Palette

Deep digital charcoal

Gunmetal gray

Infrared rust

Isolated flashes of electric blue

High-contrast white lighting (like corrupted flash)

TROJ HORSE

The Trojan horse probably still lives in many home and business PCs, although with newer virus models. I have an acquaintance who bought a new PC and refused to buy it with virus protection. I spoke to him recently, and on the first day alone 7 viruses had popped up on the newly purchased marvel. He then bought protection online immediately, and the burglary attempts were cleaned up. The statistics of crooks and criminals online have risen to record highs, and one must be very careful not to be fooled by all the emails that paste in logos for banks and others, and pretend to be legitimate. Most people probably see, among other things, in the email addresses that it is spam and that the emails are miserable thieves trying to catch a few kroner here and there. Personally, I think that many older people can go on the glue stick once in a while. Young people are born with Trojan Horses, and have much more knowledge in general in this segment. Stricter penalties and more international surveillance systems from common authorities would have helped a bit, but we also had fraud when we had a horse and cart. Be careful what you type on your keyboard out there.