[…] Next day, my friends gave me the feedback: the letters theme was a great success (my wife even wanted it hanging on our wall), and the hands theme rather backfired. That kept me thinking through the weekend: there`s so much more of “me” in the “hands” than in the “letters”, and even so people didn`t connect. I, then, begun trying to understand why I made the picture the way I did. I mean, why was oppression portrayed that way in my head? The answer was not difficult to find. When I was younger, I loved the Soviet Graphic Art. It was strong, bold and with a clear meaning. Try for yourself, and look at these pictures and back to “Domination“: […]
[…] Next day, my friends gave me the feedback: the letters theme was a great success (my wife even wanted it hanging on our wall), and the hands theme rather backfired. That kept me thinking through the weekend: there`s so much more of “me” in the “hands” than in the “letters”, and even so people didn`t connect. I, then, begun trying to understand why I made the picture the way I did. I mean, why was oppression portrayed that way in my head? The answer was not difficult to find. When I was younger, I loved the Soviet Graphic Art. It was strong, bold and with a clear meaning. Try for yourself, and look at these pictures and back to “Domination“: […]