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Anyone know what these might be? Maybe someone could tweet these to Ito?

The first one has some heads and a surreal fleshy texture. Could be early concept art or something. Team Silent did a few really surrealist renders early in the development.

The second one took me a while. There's a solder in the middle, possibly wearing a exaggeratedly thick scarf and a helmet, and holding an upright gun? Definitely has the same vibe as Ito's personal military-themed paintings.

These paintings are in the otherworld hospital's office where James sees Laura through the window after Maria has died. They cannot be seen in-game because they're positioned behind player's camera.

I used to dig through SH2-4 levels a lot in my childhood and I found these creepy masks in the Toluca Prison's armory. They aren't visible in-game and the only way to see them is with third party tools. The camera is normally placed above the shelf on ceiling level so they're always out of sight. Yet Bloober put them in anyway even if there's no obvious deeper meaning behind them.

It shows that Bloober really cared. They seem to have studied SH2's levels either with camera hacks or level viewer tools and found this odd unused detail. Whether they knew that this was an unused/unseen detail or not, it's really cool to see them add this to the game.