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1
Truly amazing work.
2
I agree. Gorgeous.
3
Really, you don't understand what they mean?
The first - a building so human made and unnatural that it is ironic that within it is a picture of the 'good old days' when we toiled in fields, in a beautiful natural country. "Pave paradise and put up a parking lot."
The second - the fence keeping in the last of the water around the pyramid - symbol of power and rule, in a country pervaded by ever-encroaching desert and drought.
The third - the military stealing or beheading a greek figure, probably representing democracy and the metaphor of the irony of 'democracy' in a country that is only truly 'free' in culture and not governmental deeds.
If you go to his website and scroll through his art, you'll see the description of one of his shows is "These drawings take a cynical view of statehood and the symbols of regional identity." ( http://bigpaperairplane.com/past-project… )
And the last words in this video of his ( http://bigpaperairplane.com/film-and-vid… ) really drives home his point: "...maybe it's zeal, maybe it's idiocy. They return to the swirling miasma pulsing in front of them and say sweetly, "Isn't it awfully beautiful?" And it is...This village of holes they've built is ever expanding. They aren't gophers, they're elephants that decided to build underground cities. These are horizon people, acquisition people, expansion people, annexation people, believers. In the end, they'll blow everything to shreds in refutation of what is in front of them. They'll tromp forward and leave a garbage of siphoned land. And, what then?"
The elephants referring to republicans, the decimation of natural resources for profit without the thought to the future seems to be one of his driving themes here.
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gorgeous detail and use of light!

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