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Artist Reveals What’s Wrong With Our Modern Society In These 30 Satirical Illustrations
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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Seen this happen in front of me irl in a park, and it was frustrating to say the least
Bored Panda also reached out to the artist to find out a little bit more about her and her work.
"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."
"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."
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.
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.
Tbh, you can get lost in the world of your garden; time passes so differently there
Books and written language are the greatest informational tools of all the centuries.
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 ....
We do need to consume less drinking water, but somehow I don't think this will solve this problem.
The point is dont waste water not drink less water /:
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11 companies use roughly 70% of our water resources. Telling households to use less is a distraction from the corporations causing the problems.
A lot of people are saying to not waste water, which is good advice, but I think the point of the illustration is that most of us are lucky things are convenient for us. A clean apartment, a flat screen TV and all the water we want with the turn of a faucet handle, instead of getting in line for as much water we can only carry. For some people in the world, this is their only option. Tap water, and other luxuries, is a convenience that most of us in this comment section forget. So, saving water can help make you feel better, but realizing to appreciate the things we have is another.
Google translation of her Instagram post: The per capita water consumption per person in Tehran is 300 liters and in Sistan and Baluchestan is 20 liters!
Don't leave the tap open because you're going to waste water which is cherished by others from its rarity
You know the vast majority of our water use is in agriculture (70% they claim, it's actually higher!). Of that most of it is used for meat production. If you really want to get water under control then eat less meat.
I have some friends, which are refugees from the Central part of Africa...and they don't give a damn about the water just after two years living in civilization....idk what to say really...
We need to save our water to go to realistic crops not very low calorie and low nutritious crops
When I am feeling poorly about my life and all the things I don’t have….this is one of the things I remember to thank God for, as much as possible - clean, running, free water practically everywhere I look, anytime I want it. There are children in third-world countries who have to trudge for MILES in devastating heat daily, only to collect as much water as they can carry, then turn around and haul it all the way back home. The worst part is that many times, although they must drink it to live, the water they work so hard for contains countless pathogens - bacteria, viruses, and parasites that cause life-threatening illnesses such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery, etc. So….even though they know it will almost definitely make them very sick, they also know that they must drink it, or die of dehydration. Most toilet water here in the States would be a marked improvement for people from places we can’t even begin to imagine the horror of daily life in. I am grateful, every day, for water.
The point is that we waste an abundance of water while watching others around the world suffering through droughts. Remember, what goes around, comes around, eventually.
At least water is an infinite resource. If you waste water, you're not actually wasting water, you're just giving yourself a bigger water bill. You're rich? Waste away.
Devastating! It's hard to get all this wasted water to where it should be. We bathe in swimming size tubs as others could suffice with at least 5 gallons a day.
This is what happens when you bottle up water and then throw it in the trash... Also when you bottle up pee and throw it in the trash...
moving water requires resources- conserving water helps stretch ALL the resources we have
It is probably Dubai. It's an incredibly wealthy nation in the midst of great poverty.
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Bottling water is a big problem. All the water that should be flowing in rivers and water sources is at every single Walmart, target, gas station, dollar tree, just sitting on pallets for money instead of investing in water treatment for all
I can't stand to see water wasted. It will be in short supply EVERYWHERE soon!
The Earth is covered in water, the largest desalination plant is the Sun and Wind as with food it's political scarcity not real scarcity
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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.
Translation of Instagram description: hope for a piece of bread! (Wave of Iranian workers moving to work in Iraqi Kurdistan)
Note: this post originally had 70 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Yes, they are powerful! Made me think and some made me not so proud to be a human being. These are a call to action for all of us.
To the people saying these made no sense or were "completely wrong"(?) Did you not notice that this is not an American cartoon, these may not be America's problems, but they used to be, and they still are problems in other countries. All like is not like you live in the states, they DO have rampart problems over discrimination of women, their poor populations have no way of bringing themselves out of poverty, most of their children have no access to education. How can you say something didn't make sense or that the message was wrong when in reality you just didn't get it...
⬆️When you try to be funny and you fail...
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All I can say is too bad. It's how life is and it's gonna be unfair, I stopped caring cause as long as it isn't me I'm alright. I have my own problems to deal with so I can't afford to care about some stranger's problem. Sure, it's a powerful message but no one will care because as long as it isn't them there isn't a reason to, you did bring awareness but no one is going to do s**t about it.
we live in a society where phone government the social app you when it do it? log by bolb 😭😭😭😭😭
That's not the type of stuff you will find here.
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Yes, they are powerful! Made me think and some made me not so proud to be a human being. These are a call to action for all of us.
To the people saying these made no sense or were "completely wrong"(?) Did you not notice that this is not an American cartoon, these may not be America's problems, but they used to be, and they still are problems in other countries. All like is not like you live in the states, they DO have rampart problems over discrimination of women, their poor populations have no way of bringing themselves out of poverty, most of their children have no access to education. How can you say something didn't make sense or that the message was wrong when in reality you just didn't get it...
⬆️When you try to be funny and you fail...
Load More Replies... All I can say is too bad. It's how life is and it's gonna be unfair, I stopped caring cause as long as it isn't me I'm alright. I have my own problems to deal with so I can't afford to care about some stranger's problem. Sure, it's a powerful message but no one will care because as long as it isn't them there isn't a reason to, you did bring awareness but no one is going to do s**t about it.
we live in a society where phone government the social app you when it do it? log by bolb 😭😭😭😭😭
That's not the type of stuff you will find here.
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