Illustration Friday - Entangled In Balanced Music In An Unbalanced World Pigment ink on 11"x14" Bristol Board
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Entangled
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How low will you go?
Bow to the King.
Bow to the Emperor.
Bow to the Prime Minister.
Perhaps bowing is not enough?
Looking good
is not the same
as doing what is good.
It's your turn.
Get:
Dangled.
Tangled.
Entangled.
Beheaded.
Bayonetted.
Hanged.
Gassed.
Massacred.
Bombed.
Terrorized.
Guilt:
Bated.
Abated.
Experiment:
Baited.
Trapped.
Skewered.
Truth:
Cloaked.
Hushed.
Sugarcoated.
Peace:
Appeased.
Bogus
medals.
Audacious.
No peace.
Wealth:
Confiscated.
Resdistributed.
Socialized.
Bailout.
Entitlement.
Reparations.
History:
Covering.
Forgetting.
Denying.
Are not equal to:
Forgiving.
Closing.
Moving.
Political
Correctness
is
cannibalism.
Eating
your
heart.
27 comments:
WOW Ces, first the words...this just could not be more relevant with what has occurred in your birth country. "Political Correctness is cannibalism. Eating
your heart." Profound. Brilliant. Being raised by a Daddy who served three years overseas during WWII and came home in a body cast, I was taught that goodness and evil WERE black and white...no gray areas there at all. WOW, first Renee and how you with these thought provoking TRUTHS. A lot to ponder as this little elf returns to festive decorating. Now, to take my time and fall into your drawing...I am salivating at the thought of it. ♥ ♥ ♥ Deb
OMGosh Ces! Your art is even more powerful than your words. I do not have the vocabulary to do this piece justice. I double enlarged it and I still need to sit with it longer. Now that is art...when it provokes the viewer to sit, ponder, fall into and experience the scene. Have you no idea of how brilliant you are??? I am thinking I need to retire from my current job and study to become your art agent!!! But at this moment my hair is rapidly drying on its own, which is a very dangerous thing and I must go whip it into wildness, for you know the vein of my vanity lies in my hair.
**blows kisses of awe** Deb
When we give thanks for all the goodnes we receive, it is also a time to ponder the other side of the coin which you have done so well and how, as mere mortals we ourselves can make a differece. So often it is the lot of the artist to bring home the unpleasant realities of our time. Not Delacroix glorifying war but Goya showing its terrors. Not the frothy Fragonard lightly touching on its excesses, but the earthy Daumier ridiculing unsparingly its injustices. It takes great courage to show the rest of the world the unpalatable truth.
Well done my Ces!
Oh yes Ces, I know they apply most certainly to our homeland here. I I love it because so many people forget that to whom much is given, much will be expected. Ces. They were not kind comments about your art. I am wildly in love with your work...it excites me, boggles my mind and just plain fills me with JOY over the incredibleness of it. Kind comments indeed! teehee. Off to make Elfin magic.
**blows kisses of sparkly Christmas magic** Deb
P.S. Arija is just way too intelligent for me! **head spins and pops off**
Your page, she is filling up quickly. I cannot help but gawk at all these atrocities, but I feel myself filling with such blackness and despair. Incredibly profound. What at first seems like such delight is, upon closer inspection, a web of horrors. Even the pockets of whimsy seem so isolated and sadly oblivious.
No, Deborah. I do not think she knows just how brilliant she is. Oooh, better catch your head before Ces fetches it and puts in her drawing.
Ooooh! I agree with Deb that your art is even more powerful than your words. I have to keep looking to discover all that you have to say!! Your art makes us think and I love that. Whoa.... your FPOT has been hard at work. You need to share this with a broader audience.
Btw.....loved the line..."correctness is cannibalism. eating your heart."
This was *off the hook* my friend!!
Thank you Deborah, Bella and Arija. I don't know what else to say. Thank you for your kind comments.
Hello Manon, so, how was your Thanksgiving my dearest sisterfriend? I am trying to decorate the tree and the livingroom is full of boxes but instead I am drawing...an elephant and a Christmas tree!
OMG.... I haven't even thought of decorating yet! Your work is sooooo inspiring .... I'm speechless .... which is unlike me!
Hahahha! Talk about inspiring. I am disappointed that I had to put away from painting materials to make room for the tree! and I so much wanted to use my bright colors! So I will just have to enjoy your paintings for now.
Ok.... so I had a real 14ft tree for years and it kept dropping it' needles as soon as I got it. Ugh! So... a couple of years ago I got a fake tree .....which sucked because I missed the smell of my live tree..... anyway .... my tree broke last year so now I'm treeless. I'm not sure what to do.
Relocate your painting materials because you won't be able to last for six weeks!!
Oh yes! real trees! We always had real trees but I am so afraid of fires because they dry up so fast in the temperature down here. Last year was the first time we had a fake tree. I set it up last night and a row of lights is not working that is why I don't feel like decorating it until I replace the culprit bulb. I thought of doing what Deborah did to her tree but I am afraid to start undoing the lights. Maybe I can draw instead of paint...Agh! I terribly miss painting. I can't make up my mind - typical Gemini.
Oh ya.... the light thing blows! That problem is so frustrating! I'd rather be painting. Today I had to bring my main computer to the Apple store because the hard drive crashed.... two years old and it was done!! Anyway.... the whole shopping area was packed and it wore me out. I don't want to go shopping for Xmas..... that's so bad of me.
We Gemini's change our mind so often.... the curse of the Gemini my friend.
I am sorry to hear about your hard drive. I hope you get it fixed soon. Oh yes! The mall! I hate the malls! they make me dizzy! I go shopping and I know exactly what I need and want and go to the same stores. if I wander I will feel sick, physically - I get dizzy. I like to go shopping online. I love giving gifts but the older I get, the more I don't like "things" at Christmas time. I like Christmas decorations and ornaments so I go shopping for that. I like to give gifts to children. I love Christmas carols and I love the smell of Christmas. Mostly I love being at home with my family.
I agree Ces! I love something that someone makes for me the best! A heartfelt poem or cd...... anything that is from the heart. Christmas has become so commercialized ...... I long for simplicity. I feel the same way about the mall thing. I'll go on a Monday morning when no one is there and get what I need.
We are blessed we have the things we need. I just want to go to a lot of dinners and get togethers but my favoriteare weekend mornings where I get to sit by a window drinking coffee and reading the paper and the tree is still lit! I also love to turn off all the lights and leave the tree lights on and light up candles everywhere and sit and listen to Christmas carols or tell stories with my children.
That's so nice Ces!! I love all the lights off with the tree light on like you.
Every year I make Alex watch "Little Women" with me. (the Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon version). We also watch "Christmas Vacation" so we can crack up together. I will watch "The Sound of Music" by myself. (I've watched it every year for as long as I can remember). I love those traditions.
It's the little things that matter.
Every year we watch "The Year Without a Santa" and "The Christmas Story" and I declare the same thing everyyear. I get so excited when I see the vintage Fiesta dishes! Hahaha! That is so funny. I wait for the dinner table scenes and wait to see the Fiesta dishes. Even before I was born, my family always had a picture taken together on New Year's Eve. I continued the tradition. Before I was married, I posed with my friends with whom I shared the New Year's Eve and with my sister considered them my family for four years in New Jersey. I decorate the house wit fresh flowers everywhere!
Oooooh I love vintage Fiesta dishes and I love "Christmas Story"! There is so much to love about Christmas and traditions!! I can sing every song in "the Sound of Music"..... you just don't want me to sing because my voice is awful!
Than you for the bloggermance tonight but I must get to bed. Yes.... my daughter is going out and I'm heading to bed...lol! I'm getting old.
Night Ces!!
xo
But that is okay! hey! You are helping me decorate the house tonight. What is your favorite Christmas carol? I llike Brend Lee's Jingle Bell Rock and I like the medley of Little Drummer Boy and Peace on earth by Bing Crosby and David Bowie. I like all Christmas carols sang by Ella Fitzgerald, dean Martin or The Carpenters. I like Manheim Steamroller and the Vienna Choir Boys. Hahahah! Okay, I love all of them. Hey! isn't this late for you?
Hahaha! Goodnight dear. Thank you for the bloggermance.
Oh, I thought this poem was about the "politics" in the nursing profession, LOL! ;)
Deep and mind blowing! Some could fall into this and never climb their way bakc out :)
Amazing work Ces. That sad thing is, history repeats itself. Dad was in WW II in the South Pacific; would never speak of what he saw. He would never be able to understand the political climate that our country has slithered into the past, oh, I don't know how many years.
I love your quote about political correctness. Right on target.
XXOO!!
Anne
What a heavy heavy poem. It's brutal!
And then the picture...yes, so complex. The world is filled with details, with things, and yes, balance is so important.
Wow tita Ces, did you just draw Philippine history in an 11" x 14" canvas?hehe Too much detail, even my brain can't process it. I have to rest my eyes and absorb one thing at a time. Am I imagining things? Think I see my self carved in the precipice beneath the "white elephant" that is our government.;)
This is a great piece that comes timely with the Ampatuan Massacre, have you heard? There is so much in this drawing that everyone should see, especially that lady vandalizing one of the rocks with her initials!;)
Wow, Ces. I always pause when I come to visit as your words and illustrations always draw me in, and then leave me with thoughts and questions, and then I go back and think about it before I can write. Somesties I can't even write anything..(speechless, right?!) You are such an important presence in this blogworld and I'm grateful that I can visit and see/read/ponder. Thank you, my friend!
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