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Today we’d like for you to meet the artist Mahnaz Yazdani. Mahnaz’s deep and meaningful work often portrays society's problems in surrealistic illustrations that tend to show how everyday people (just like us) suffer from things that seemingly the rest of our modern society refuses to acknowledge more often than not.

One could say we probably have gotten used to the said problems just because we are always surrounded by them, so much that we don't even notice them anymore. However, things such as war, global pandemic, and problems revolving around our mental health aren’t going anywhere any time soon.

All in all, Yazdani’s work might give you a thought or two regarding the way we live currently.

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DUN DUN (she/her)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seen this happen in front of me irl in a park, and it was frustrating to say the least

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"I am a storyteller who tells most of her stories in her comics and animations. I started my art journey as an animator and cartoonist twenty years ago. My focus was on making animation for years. Since 2015, I have been professionally drawing editorial cartoons. I had so many stories in my mind waiting to be created, but animating all of them needed lots of years, so I chose comic style to tell my stories faster."

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I really like this one. Sharing ideas and love being where they all intersect. Very cute.

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"Maybe the main characteristic of mine has led me to create such art: a humoristic outlook and thinking about the feelings of other people, for example, how does a kid feel under bombardment. Those help me to create a humorous story and then tell it in the shape of a comic, cartoon, or animation."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So beautifully illustrated, yet so devistately accurate and confronting. Currently we are being told to take our empty plastic bags back to our house, because the seahorses are dying.

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In the age of the Internet, the lack of access to stable and high-speed Internet means the deprivation of job opportunities, education, social, cultural and all the facilities that are just available online.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's saying that only those from privilege (represented here by the kids flying in on dollars) have access to knowledge (the book fortress). The less privileged are locked out.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tbh, you can get lost in the world of your garden; time passes so differently there

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Books and written language are the greatest informational tools of all the centuries.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Google translation of her post on Instagram: For my mother and aunts ... My mother and aunts spent many years of their lives behind the carpet, from childhood to the years they experienced motherhood. The weavers built a ladder to bring themselves and their families to what they are now and will be. I'm proud of having such strong women in my life. Women who, believing in better tomorrows, bought the hardest and continue to buy ... Your hard-working hands are the most beautiful hands ....

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We do need to consume less drinking water, but somehow I don't think this will solve this problem.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

same everywhere dude. Money gets you a cushier sentence and out sooner.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is that long ass Putins table and he cant hear the world telling him to stop being an a*****e...

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The other child is not only homeless, but also has no one to care for him. He is longing for someone to wash him and love him.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We are so focused on our own kids, that we don't see other children who have less

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Brian Michael
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A homeless child is dirty but if an adult would help take care of him he could be clean and happy like the other child

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Reneé Dilts
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People only tend to care about their own children in this world . We should care about all children like the homeless or orphaned that need our help .

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Brett Blaikie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She is using potable water to wash her hands while the dirty child in poverty watches on. Two sides of the street one spacious the other crowded and littered.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see the kid smiling and still believes that she will help. And maybe she will turn and pickup second kid when she is done with first kid.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your one child? Or all the children? Every person's choice.

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June Gillespie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While the woman is taking care of her child she doesn't care about the needs of other children?

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Katie-Lin Finnemore
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a child of divorce. My half siblings got love and attention. I needed some of that, but she didn't see me. Just like in this...this hurts.

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Katie-Lin Finnemore
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of when my mother treated my half siblings better than me. I'm a child of divorce. Watched them get everything they wanted while I just got told I was going to be a loser like my father.

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It represents our current society being okay with throwing some children out with the trash. AKA abortion.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Literally happened to a friend. Her house was older and NOT in a flood zone. Developer put in condos that caused her property to periodically flood when it rained. It was loveable until hurricane Irma came through and her house got 4 ft of water in it. No flood insurance (because again, NOT IN A FLOOD ZONE), but homeowner's insurance refused to pay because it was a flood event. Turns out the permits for the condos were illegally issued because it was pretty clear what works happen to the properties on the downward slope of the ground they built up to build the condos, bus sure couldn't find an attorney to take the case to sue the county and the contractor for the damage.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Translation of Instagram description: hope for a piece of bread! (Wave of Iranian workers moving to work in Iraqi Kurdistan)

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