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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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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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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."

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

And true. My biological father is Avery skilled child predator, online and in person. And too f-ing smart to get caught.

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

When I was teenage n first time using a social media (FB) I was so excited to make a new friends. Thus the idiot me at that time just accept everyone who friend me without checking on them first. One day there's someone pm me n send a pic of his d**k n asked me to show mine. I was that time WTF!!!???

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

So its an old man acting like a young boy to get the girl to trust him

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

This one is so sad that adults deceive children for sex. Children are so innocent, they don't deserve to be treated so bad.

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

My young brother had this weirdo on YouTube calling him cute or something and I told him to block him cuz that ain't right.

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

its so true they don't truly know who they talk to online and there are so many sick people in the world

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

Online pedophile preying his victims. Wish him or her only death.

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

The biggest problem with the internet!! Sleazy ass pigs!!! They should all be physically castrated!!!

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

Maybe it's the way the predator is slouching, but he kind of reminds me of Igor. Just as evil.

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

I just saw an Instagram post about this happening to someone's daughter on an app called roadblock(?) that kids use. This image gave me the chills.

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

This is so scary because it is happening at an alarming rate, worldwide!! Monitoring a child's online time has never been more crucial yet in this day and age it has become darn near impossible! Installing Spector Soft on their devices, which will allow some knowledge into their online activities and who they are chatting with, may be an option. I realize this dives into the realm of invasion of privacy but when it comes to our young children and the despicable amount of predators out there chomping at the bit, I think most parents are willing to do whatever it takes to protect their children! This is a very emotional subject for me. I was 5 yr old, there were no electronic devices in the early 70's. This is every parents nightmare! :-(

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

Creepy as hell. Having 2 daughters and a 5 year old grandson this makes my skin crawl with absolute horror and fear.

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

Super creepy...having 2 daughters and a 5 year old grandson this makes my skin crawl with absolute horror and fear.

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

This is creepy and scary...so many fake people!!!

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

A picture is worth a thousand words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

most pedos aren't like this... they are like Jerry from "cheer'... charismatic and sneaky

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

I don't think it's meant to be taken literally. It's just illustrating that predators will pretend to be children online in order to gain trust.

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

If only online predation were as outdated as this illustration. Today snapchat features soft porn content by females luring boys into pay for porn addiction.

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

If only online predation were the outdated male like this one, it would be easier to catch them. Now females are luring boys into sex payments for income stream addiction.

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

I better not see comments about only little girls being targeted.. ain't true

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

Exactly why parents should monitor their kids on the internet!

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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 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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