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Here’s a never-before-posted work from my on-going WWII portfolio.
This was the first piece I did of the project to get into the mood. Four years later I see so many flaws in it – the greatest of which is that I couldn’t do a wolfmorph then – that it’s somewhat of an embarrassment now. But that’s where practice comes in, right? :)
World Aflame, the name of my project, is a heroic fable based on reality. A myth if you will, with the names and specifics of that reality subject to my artistic interpretation, but not the events. For instance, the black symbol in the white circle is a stylized letter “S”, not that other thing.
This was the first piece I did of the project to get into the mood. Four years later I see so many flaws in it – the greatest of which is that I couldn’t do a wolfmorph then – that it’s somewhat of an embarrassment now. But that’s where practice comes in, right? :)
World Aflame, the name of my project, is a heroic fable based on reality. A myth if you will, with the names and specifics of that reality subject to my artistic interpretation, but not the events. For instance, the black symbol in the white circle is a stylized letter “S”, not that other thing.
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Wolf
Size 306 x 600px
File Size 48.9 kB
The sad thing is that the swastika was actually a symbol of good before Hitler got his hands on it. It still has some of its old connotations in some eastern countries but due to being associated with Hitler, white supremacists, and the Holocaust it is controversial and 'evil' in most modern minds. I've often wondered if there are not ramifications from the perversion of a symbol. I know, for instance, that wolves were hunted to near extinction for being portrayed as evil, much as you show here.
Yes. The swastika was a Native American Hopi done in reverse. The way to tell is to spin the image clock-wise. If the > ridges flow smoothly, then it is the Hopi, showing a balance with nature. If the sharp points stab forward, then it is the swastika, cutting against the flow of nature.
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Hopi Swastika
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Hopi Swastika
Intricately bent crosses or teeth-baring wolves are no more evil in themselves than are the four crossed lines children draw on the sidewalk to play Hop-Scotch on, or the random chipmunk.
I use symbols, ages-old characterization of animal types and the viewer’s own connotations to them to get the message in my pictures across to the majority of people.
It's the meanings we ourselves place in those symbols and animals that invests them with evil ... or admiration.
I use symbols, ages-old characterization of animal types and the viewer’s own connotations to them to get the message in my pictures across to the majority of people.
It's the meanings we ourselves place in those symbols and animals that invests them with evil ... or admiration.
No, though I might add that humans are generally aware that a canine baring teeth is not exactly friendly.
You have done very well with this image to get the connotations in, though please forgive me if I don't add this to may favorites - it unsettles me for too many reasons. The art itself is good but the connotations that can be brought to it are the antithesis of what I would like people to think of wolves.
You have done very well with this image to get the connotations in, though please forgive me if I don't add this to may favorites - it unsettles me for too many reasons. The art itself is good but the connotations that can be brought to it are the antithesis of what I would like people to think of wolves.
It'll be years before it is done, Foxystallion. In the meantime I’m hoping that people will not fixate too much on the symbols and names I will be using as substitutes. For if they do, then it will be all too easy for them to think, ‘Oh that is supposed to be that symbol that was used a long time ago by people long since dead. Things like that have no relevance to today and certainly not to me.’
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Yes - President Cleveland had the same solution to the "Indian problem" as Stalin had to the "Kulak problem": destroy all their food, and "natural starvation" quickly follows. There is at least one documented case of the US purposly giving Indians smallpox infected blankets.
*nods* It was one of the first things that I thought of when considering this project. Under that other symbol millions of people were murdered or died. I resolved in memory of those dead that under no circumstances would I reproduce it in any of my works.
With this particular piece I want people to consider how seductive symbols can be and how our thinking is often times molded by them. A handsome young athletic wolfmorph carrying a banner with the symbol of a political party that promises a return to national pride, international respect, and family values on it for instance.
With this particular piece I want people to consider how seductive symbols can be and how our thinking is often times molded by them. A handsome young athletic wolfmorph carrying a banner with the symbol of a political party that promises a return to national pride, international respect, and family values on it for instance.
Mind boggeling! 62 years after Hitler's ignominous and too long delayed suicide, the swastica still has the power to release such strong emotions. The 21st century tragedy is that so few of those who are quite properly disturbed by the swastica understand how Naziism happened. How many know that Adolph Hitler was elected democratically? How he seized and redristributed the wealth of Jews and conquered foreigners to buy the German electorate's popular acclaim?
The would-be dictator's political party (and a grouping of other like-minded political parties) formed a strangling majority in parliament. But they had paralyzed the government for so long that they had begun to loose the favor and the votes of the electorate.
It was a cabal of petty-minded officials in high places, who for purely personal reasons, pressured the country's ailing president into appointing H to the chancellorship.
So actually he was NOT elected to power by the people, democratically or otherwise. The power was GIVEN to him in a back-door deal by well-educated men who believed that by doing so they could control him and his rambunctious political party.
It was a cabal of petty-minded officials in high places, who for purely personal reasons, pressured the country's ailing president into appointing H to the chancellorship.
So actually he was NOT elected to power by the people, democratically or otherwise. The power was GIVEN to him in a back-door deal by well-educated men who believed that by doing so they could control him and his rambunctious political party.
Oh, i'm so late on commenting... Everythings already been asked, told, or answered:p
Well, at least i can add that me as well, like this pic^^,
I had a question here, but it's probably a stupid one(Probably answered already:p) and i don't wanna get into this whole thing about me being stupid and should go read some history books and all that:S And besides, i can't formulate it right anyway, so i'm just not gonna ask:p
Well, at least i can add that me as well, like this pic^^,
I had a question here, but it's probably a stupid one(Probably answered already:p) and i don't wanna get into this whole thing about me being stupid and should go read some history books and all that:S And besides, i can't formulate it right anyway, so i'm just not gonna ask:p
The difference between ignorance and stupidity is this – ignorant people do not know a thing. I am ignorant when it comes to quantum mechanics for example. Stupid is when a person knows something and then acts contrary to what they know. For instance, we all know that electricity can be lethal. So, we call someone stupid who sticks his finger into an electric light socket with the expectation of the results being anything other than most likely lethal. Okay?
And as to the question that you did not ask, the answer is “Yes, but only with a pink giraffe on a subway traveling south”.
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And as to the question that you did not ask, the answer is “Yes, but only with a pink giraffe on a subway traveling south”.
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What kinda answer is that?:S haha:p
But ok, point taken. I'll ask then, but first let me just say that i don't KNOW much about either WW. I didn't live back then, and i'm not a history wizard. I learn as i go by reading what i come across. I don't activly go out and look for the answers i need, i just stuble over them here and there and i make my life go by in that order:p
Why is he bearing that flag? Is he protesting, or supporting? And why a wolf? And why didn't you use the propriate symbol on the flag? I mean, this, i think, can be concidered censoring history.... Can't it? I mean, changing the grousom facts into something "nicer". That's what leaders do when they want people to forget, so that it can eventually happen again...
I don't think anyone would flag you for using that symbol in this pic. We all know the history (I REALLY hope) and we should try to cover it up and forget about it just because it causes some weird feelings in some people...
But ok, point taken. I'll ask then, but first let me just say that i don't KNOW much about either WW. I didn't live back then, and i'm not a history wizard. I learn as i go by reading what i come across. I don't activly go out and look for the answers i need, i just stuble over them here and there and i make my life go by in that order:p
Why is he bearing that flag? Is he protesting, or supporting? And why a wolf? And why didn't you use the propriate symbol on the flag? I mean, this, i think, can be concidered censoring history.... Can't it? I mean, changing the grousom facts into something "nicer". That's what leaders do when they want people to forget, so that it can eventually happen again...
I don't think anyone would flag you for using that symbol in this pic. We all know the history (I REALLY hope) and we should try to cover it up and forget about it just because it causes some weird feelings in some people...
The short answer is 'that other symbol, the flags, the uniforms and the massed displays were all designed to win over converts to an ideology. What cause would I serve by showing them again in exactly the same way as they were designed?' My intent is not to glorify the defeated cause of Nazism, but to show how handsome faces, smart looking uniforms, stirring idealistic speeches, and feeling a part of a common cause under ANY symbol can be evil.’
Oh, i didn't mean anything bad with what i said:S Sorry if that's what it sounded like.. I have no intention of starting an argument over something that's not even important to me:s
But i just ment that by seing the symbol the way it was used, and in the same forms that it was used back then, then people will always remember what should NOT happen again... By changing the symbol, the meaning is lost and eventually forgotten. And when history is forgotten, thats when it happens again for us to learn from it since we obciousely didn't learn the lesson the first time around:s
Oh, and did you know, that over here in northern Europe, both in Norway and Sweden(and probably germany, finland and denmark), there has been an increase of people reuniting under that symbol, doing the same things that happened back then, with the same motivs, same speaches and everything that follows? It's really scary to think about, and they are getting bigger every year:s Here where i live, that symbol is seen in several places in broad daylight... It was weird at first when i saw it, but people here doesn't seem to mind it much, so i guess i've gotten used to it now too...
But i just ment that by seing the symbol the way it was used, and in the same forms that it was used back then, then people will always remember what should NOT happen again... By changing the symbol, the meaning is lost and eventually forgotten. And when history is forgotten, thats when it happens again for us to learn from it since we obciousely didn't learn the lesson the first time around:s
Oh, and did you know, that over here in northern Europe, both in Norway and Sweden(and probably germany, finland and denmark), there has been an increase of people reuniting under that symbol, doing the same things that happened back then, with the same motivs, same speaches and everything that follows? It's really scary to think about, and they are getting bigger every year:s Here where i live, that symbol is seen in several places in broad daylight... It was weird at first when i saw it, but people here doesn't seem to mind it much, so i guess i've gotten used to it now too...
The swastica is used today because it immediately atracts attention because of it's past. That people gather together now under the Nazi symbol shows that they lack any new ideological ideas of their own. They can no more resurrect the power that it once had any more then writing the letter "N" on walls will bring back Napoleon and -his- New European Order.
I certainly hope you're right^^, Cos that stuff is scary to think about. This village i live in is TINY, and i'm gay, and that's the first thing i noticed when coming here. Two BIG signs with Nazi symbols on them, and this was gonna be my home??:p
But you're right... Nothing has happened so far, and nobodys been beat up or worse:s
But that's not the situation down in the capital here in sweden... That's the place where they are actually active:s Sweden is so liberal in letting everyone be able to express themselves like that so i don't really like it here much...
In Norway, the use of nazi symbols are illegal if the meaning is to promote nazism, and there they do their best to keep "new nazists"(which they are called over here) from grouping up and protesting. Though they are getting more and more of them in Norway as well...
They may not be able to become what they once were, but terror can still be created if they set their minds to it... That's what worries me:s
But you're right... Nothing has happened so far, and nobodys been beat up or worse:s
But that's not the situation down in the capital here in sweden... That's the place where they are actually active:s Sweden is so liberal in letting everyone be able to express themselves like that so i don't really like it here much...
In Norway, the use of nazi symbols are illegal if the meaning is to promote nazism, and there they do their best to keep "new nazists"(which they are called over here) from grouping up and protesting. Though they are getting more and more of them in Norway as well...
They may not be able to become what they once were, but terror can still be created if they set their minds to it... That's what worries me:s
That was and is one of my greatest fears in doing this project; that it would be viewed in some way as glorifying Fascism.
However if it has in some way caused you to remember your lack of fondness for those types of organizations and particularly for that form of thinking, then my purpose in doing it has been successful. Never Forget. Never Forget. Never Forget.
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However if it has in some way caused you to remember your lack of fondness for those types of organizations and particularly for that form of thinking, then my purpose in doing it has been successful. Never Forget. Never Forget. Never Forget.
:~(
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