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03/23/10:

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Well, it’s been far too long since my last post, my apologies. My blogging absence has not been due to lack of work but rather a lack of leisure time. Hopefully I can devote sometime in the next few weeks to properly document all my torrid adventures and the images that said adventures subsequently spawned. In lieu of affording myself the time to blog about them thoroughly now, I shall say this in regards to the work that was produced in the past few months; these past few months have certainly been conceptually formative, challenging and entirely economically irrelevant, I’ve leapt into some personal work and the result has been in some instances terrific, and in other instances embarrassing failures… nevertheless, it’s been fun.

First off, I’ll start with this little collection of drawings depicting the fictional battle between modern England and the Britons. In reality it was the Britons verses the Anglo-Saxons, the result of which is what we know as the United Kingdom. More or less these works are a humorous response to the tacitly placed guilt on American society from the movie Avatar, and indeed running rampant throughout contemporary media. Sure, sure the Native Americans were great and all, I thought, but any semblance of their true history has been replaced by this highly romanticized notion of their purity. Pssh- were they not just as warring and territorial as we? Just as I don’t have any strong emotional concern for my Briton ancestors, I am entirely unconcerned with the plight of the Native Americans. Here I show this fictional narrative of my ancestors being conquered… good for England, I can assure you it’s better off. MMMM, mmm, MMMM…. I can’t wait to build a house on 40 acres of prime Pandora real estate and start living off the vast revenues from the Unobtainium I drill. Hell, the locals aren’t doing anything with it.
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One Response

  1. I like the image of being pushed away from their natural homeland so the modern Brits can build Big Ben.

    Comment by Elizabeth on April 28, 2010 at 10:18 pm



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