Finally found the original version.

I'd rather live outside the wall.

I assume that the villagers are there by choice, because were they exiled from the city they would have moved farther away. It could be that the people in the village willingly rejected modernity due to ideological reasons, or they could simply be practicing living history (portraying people from the past to educate others on this lifestyle). 

Great concept, well done ^^

this is my favorite artwork of all time!

SO Cool

My headcanon: this is some time in a fully automated future society where all basic needs are met and the economies and social structures of the present are basically extinct. Because of this, many people are finally able to do what they want to do with their lives, and in some cases, that means recreating ancient ways of living. So some choose to live on the outskirts of a futuristic megacity, basically living the way their ancestors did many thousands of years ago.

We can't do this today without facing hefty repercussions since labor is, for the most part, not automated and thus humans are required to keep society functioning, hence why we shame those who are lazy or choose not to work. Yet we also have surprisingly regressive ideas on automation, thinking that not working entirely would make us depressed despite the fact that societies with few working hours actually have much higher productivity and happiness and it's in those with much more working hours that the idle tend to be depressed.

thats CAPITALISM!!

Both are happy in different ways.

I'm a huge fan of sci-fi concepts like this. Where there are groups of people in the future who say, "Nah, fuck it." to advancing technologies and pretty much decide to live in a medieval level society. Sort of like the Amish in a way. It gets even better when the two cultures are in close proximity to one another. I'd like to think that the material wealth and high level of technological advancement would start to make the people of the high level society softer, which would necessitate them recruiting people from the medieval society into their military because of how much more rough their lives would likely be. That could make for a very interesting dynamic. 

Amazing

Ho-ly crap, that is some amazing artwork!

Weird coming across the original post for a picture you've seen dozens of times in other places. 

What's the story of this?

What's the largest that a print of those will clearly print at?

Amazing artwork!