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

I'm surprised Putin didn't have a taller chair so he could also look down on everyone too.

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

This is law makers being so out of touch with the public that they don’t know what people are even saying. We will see how true this is with tonight’s SOTU address.

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

Biden should be the one we beg to step up and lead. Putin knows Biden is no problem. Please support and pray for Ukraine.

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

Everytime biden is in office Russia invades Ukraine. Biden is 100% the reason Russia invaded

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

He has the symbol of "justice" on his chair. He can't hear your legal rights, your freedoms, your common sense, or care about your proof of facts over the social distancing table, plexiglass and from his position of power.

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

The balance ⚖️ Scales of justice ♎ and they only pretend they cannot hear how they are harming the children - THEY DON'T CARE! Well justice, sir, those children will be your keepers when you are old, frail, and in need. I hope that puts fear of God within you.

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Chester Lester
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they don't want to hear you it won't matter how loudly you shout.

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

Ukraine is setting them up. Baiting them to keep coming. And their country is huge.

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

Me trying to tell the world that Trump and Putin are trying to annihilate the world... Ijs.

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

When you eat soup with the devil, better have a long spoon. Proverb.

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

I first thought of Putin and his table. It also is government not listening to the people

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

HR at my building has always been great, there's someone there at all times??

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

A corporate overlord who can't (doesn't want to) deal with anything from the underlings

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

The West who ignore the shouting of ethnic Russians in the Donbass as Zelensky murders them so Hunter Biden can bring in Dutch Shell and Chevron to frack the Donbass. Same in Central America. It's all about the Benjamin's baby.

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Isn't this war kinda like America taking back the south?

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

not at all! Russia had no reason for invading Ukraine, but the US had reason for taking back the south. The reason being that they supported a lot of things that the US viewed as inhumane.

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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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