Evolve or Perish
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We Need to Stop Playing Trump’s Game
It is long past time to stop playing Trump’s game of racism, hate, misogyny, and abject greed. If Trump is elected, he will end democracy as we know it. Harris will preserve it and work to make it better and far more inclusive so we can have it, as Lincoln said, a more perfect union. It will only happen if you vote.
Wow, friend- that’s amazing, and only the first one I’ve seen so far. OMG- how powerful and beautifully done. Also, today, there’s the juxtaposition of the oil-soaked pelican on the right-side news bar…. absolutely heartbraking. You have a lot of talent and powerful imagery in that one piece. Thanks for asking me to see it!
Hi MsB. Thanks so much for checking it out. I’m in the middle of a move now so not posting so much, but between here and there we can always manage to find each other, as furry friends so often do!
My gosh, WTS, I adore this artwork because it says it all and speaks volumes.
Did you take classes or are you a natural at what you do so well?
The words brilliant, talented and WTS always seem to go together.
I love this piece, WTS. So true, so potent, so evocative.
Fantastic!
Thanks very much, AdLib. I really appreciate that!
Excellent statement WTS. Unfortunately to evolve we have to be a reasonable society. Right now I don’t care who the leaders are. The people in this country refuse to evolve even a little.
Agreed. but I don’t get the photo. It’s kinda eerie.
A mythical Pandora opens the forbidden box containing all the world’s troubles. Ironically it sits atop a barrel of oil. An oil soaked shore bird rises from the pollution that Pandora’s unwittingly released.
(Does its resemblance to a phoenix give us a glimmer of hope?)
Hope I got that fairly correct, WTS?
That was my interpretation as well.
Ditto –
Under the phoenix, it looks like dying tree roots –
Yes, that is it. Thank you, Kesmarn.
kes,
Tell me you learned this in nursing school. 🙂
boomer! It’s so good to see you here!
Yes, this was covered in Nursing Mythology 101, boomer…same place where we learned that RNs never have to empty bedpans and American insurance companies have our best interests at heart.
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Tanks kes,
Told Kalima awhile ago, been feeling a tad weepy lately and just couldn’t muster the energy to behave intelligently in posts.
PS – I earned a B+ in university level mythology/philosophy, but as you can read, my interpretation of Whatsie’s illustration was so completely on another tangent.
Rest assured, there may be an illustration of RNs, hospitals, bedpans-come-to- life, and insurance company heart throbs in the future. 😆
Heard from bito?
Oh, boomer, I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been feeling blue. Don’t worry about behaving intelligently in posts…why should you be any different from the rest of us? 😉
Hope you’re feeling better now.
I haven’t heard from b’ito and it makes me so sad. I’m trying to decide if there’s any sensitive, tactful, non-invasive way of getting even the most basic information… So far no light bulbs have gone off for me.
hee hee!
It’s not a photo.
Wow!
VB,
Whatsie is our resident arteest. Over-the-top talented, including this:
http://planetpov.com/2010/01/24/corporations-are-people-too-by-dr-suits/
Change is good, it builds character. Those who don’t embrace change will, as Whatsie’s drawing states, will perish — be last in line — be overlooked.
I am in awe of such talent.
You are very, very, kind, VegasBabe.
Hi Boomer! Thanks for your comments. Our civilization is definitely at a tipping point now, and I just hope we tip the right way. It’s easy to become discouraged though…..
So sad, and so true, KQ. We are in deep trouble.
Fantastic symbolic artwork !! I predict that your works will be collectors’ items one day soon WTS ….
If WTS ever wanted to raise money for the Planet or another worthy cause, the originals would probably fetch a handsome price! 🙂
I do plan to exhibit them in Tokyo eventually. I’ll be sure to hold a “virtual exhibition” here as well.
That’s something to look forward to, seriously –
& ‘attaching’ your works (to gain fame & fortune heh) to a world-wide Environmental Agency could be a perfect venue –
That’s an interesting thought, Lise. I submitted my TeaBagger parody (the post I put up last week) to the NYT OpEd page, but never heard back. But I’m going to keep trying!
Never give up – I’ve heard that many a well-known artist (in their own particular field) had to do that & then one day : boom, it all took off, so do not give up.
Our man Patriot (Planeteer) needs to do the same, his venue could be to attach his most well-written travelogues (hope that expression isn’t offensive) to some travel industry, like Fodors ….
And then there are those of us, me in particular, who only aspire to such fluid greatness.
Where’s the teabagger parody ?
Link ?
Save me some time & make you do all the work ?
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Lise, Lise…
I’ll jump in here —
http://planetpov.com/2010/04/23/how-do-you-take-your-tea/
You really do need to hang out here more often than not 🙂
Thanks, Boomer, again! I just went out for a bit, and didn’t see this comment from Lise. But, much agreement, we need her around here more often!
Thanks, Lise!
Wow – WTS – magnificent and simply stunning in its implications! Thank you for being part of he Planet and sharing your amazing talents with us!
MIND boggling and beautiful!
Thanks, choicelady. I had it in my head to write an essay about the disaster, but eventually opted to just put a visual up. I think there is so much frustration right now about this, and feelings of impotent rage. We want changes. We are appalled at how preventable this tragedy was. I’m sick about this. That is all, ultimately, any essay by me would say. So, I figured, just the picture.
Did you do this yourself Whatsthatsound?
Wow, quite talented. Very powerful.
Thanks, Pepe. Whenever I’ve run posts here they’ve been my illustrations accompanying them.
As if the Gulf Coast hadn’t already been through enough…
You have an empathetic heart, WTS. And a great talent.
Whatsie, this is astounding! Are you syndicated? This art deserves nationwide circulation, right now, IMEO (in my exalted opinion).
I think I’m still in an elemental, primitive denial stage regarding this tragedy. I grew up on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, FL, and spent many childhood days in a rowboat in the cypress swamps, or on the beach. I could lie on the dock and watch manatees and dolphins and pelicans (prodigious shitters!), or hail a passing shrimp boat for a just-caught supply. Catch crabs. Watch egrets and herons and storks and clouds of bats.
My soul aches for the lives being lost and ruined by unchecked greed.
Thanks, nottoolate. That’s what it is – unchecked greed. Sick and appalling.
I’m not syndicated. I would love to reach a larger audience, though. I appreciate your encouragement.
Wow.
cheers.
Every politican should have your art tattooed on their foreheads, WTS!! I, too, seem to spend my days in a perpetual haze of anger – not good!! Your work really draws me in – there is so much more than readily meets the eye.
Thank you. Yes, I know it’s not good to be stuck in anger, but it is so difficult not to be. Everything about this event, and the more we learn about it, it seems that the only natural response is to scream and sob like a three year old throwing a tantrum in response to watching her parents squabble.
I live near an exquisite river. A river that is teeming with fish, mostly trout. One sees trout fisherman there all the time, in their wading outfits.
Can’t eat the fish though. Up river, GE spewed it’s hostility, greed, and waste.
In some ways, we already have perished. Or at the very least rotting in the fridge.
I find it hard to say anything rational about this, I am using a very unevolved part of my brain right now to process this thing.
Me too; just angry. We may not have perished, but we’ve very nearly become a society of death. We need the eightfold path, but are ruled by the seven deadly sins, greed first and foremost.
I love the motif, wts. No words necessary. Picture=1000
thanks, Q
At least Pandora’s cute.