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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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3 years ago Created 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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    Lindsey
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    3 years ago (edited) Created 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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    Nijlenna Rusty
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    3 years ago Created 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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    Why?
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He might want to throw sand to mark the path ala Indiana Jones.

    ZAPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Take a "leap of faith", I remember that scene.

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    Amy Jo Hoppins
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ask you provider for "Internet Essentials" it's only $9.95 a month and they provide the highest available speed to you. this is strictly for internet access, not TV. They will give you options for how you might qualify: food stamps, social security income, "Elderly and Disabled", Section 8 housing. If you are receiving any of these they will begin your service and ask you to send copies of documents which you can do at a store where you will be given the latest and best equipment which they provide free of charge. Whenever there is new equipment you can take in the old for a switch out. Plus they provide installation. No charge.

    Lehua Anakoni
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good luck getting disability if you have autism or ADD or any mental illness aside from severe schizophrenia and after they beat you down with antipsychotics, also good luck getting it if your transgender, basically if your not crippled or criminally insane your not getting disability. And trust me autism is every bit as crippling as a physical illness, Also good luck getting any benefits at all even food stamps I have autism, ADD and brain damage from certain things I won't get into and I cannot get food stamps or disability. I had to shoplift to feed myself and now have a criminal record I also cannot afford a lawyer and I have wealthy family members (millionaire) who refused to help me, let's my life fall apart and let me to in a jail cell. America is a joke I would have been much better off in Scandinavia.

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    Christina Howe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This effects me often. High speed internet isn't available where I live. Thankfully I get slower internet. How can you apply for a job today without internet? No one makes paper copies of applications anymore.

    Amanda Roddam
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in a rural area. Moved to get away from the crime in Birmingham. I feel this pain. It's outrageous what we have to pay for internet service and satellite TV that doesn't work about 50% of the time. My child suffers as well because of virtual learning days every month.

    L.a. Williams
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This should be a utility. Not a privilege.

    Lori Wakefield
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    think globally the more opportunities everyone has the better our world becomes

    Jessica Medemar
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not even a financial reason for folks in my community who don't have internet. The internet providers can not provide them internet because of where they live. My inlaws live less than a half mile from me and don't have access to internet by any internet provider. It's not always because of money. I live in Michigan.

    Jessica Medemar
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has become so so visible with the pandemic and school going to online. I didn't realize how many people in my community do not have access to internet.

    Scourge McCloud
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Coming from a rural area, it took them forever to finally allow us to have WiFi. Kept getting every excuse under the sun. Meanwhile, other places already had wifi for quite awhile.

    Glenn Jernigan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I say.....this one's BS

    Eliza May
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, can't work from home without high speed internet.

    ErrorGamer2000
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel this one. I am pucky to get an 8 mb download and 1 upload

    Ed Randolph
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He may want to relocate to an area with better reception....I would.

    No you can't have my name
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read an article recently saying the number of companies keeping WFH permanently are just going to create a new segment of job inequality. They forgot that companies are only helping along what already exists.

    Ali Hard
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if you don't want toxic routers and electrical currents surging through your brain every hour of every day....

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    monkeydog
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    3 years ago Created 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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    DUN DUN (she/her)
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    3 years ago Created 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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    teresa rudnik
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    3 years ago Created 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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    Zoe's Mom
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The lack of a reflection. Well done.

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    Kaiserfranzgirl
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    3 years ago Created 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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    1010011 1001110
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know this personally. This is exactly how it feels

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    Nijlenna Rusty
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    3 years ago Created 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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    ZAPanda
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    3 years ago Created 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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    Rijkærd
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    3 years ago Created 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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    Heather Vandegrift
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    3 years ago Created 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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    Nijlenna Rusty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How much will this matchbox cost to live in? about a million?

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    Kaiserfranzgirl
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    3 years ago Created 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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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    nobody recycles even if it goes in the recycling bin

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    Nat Rose
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    International contributions to the tRump of a Pig bank to suck face

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    Nijlenna Rusty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ooohhh, would love to have one of those book flash drives in my brain! Saves me from actually reading the boring obligatory stuff.

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    Nijlenna Rusty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    civilians are always the biggest victims in any war

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    Nijlenna Rusty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    somehow I think the bullet will still hit and the doves will stop coming.

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    Lady Goldberry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brain said 'cult'. I know its a lovely pic really...

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    Kaiserfranzgirl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Instagram description translated: Landless ... Thirty-five years ago, the Burmese military government passed a new law declaring the Rohingya people non-Burmese and stripping them of their citizenship. The United Nations calls them the largest landless population in the world ... #rohingya

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    Heather Vandegrift
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Serves him right. If only everyone was subject to suck dire consequences for their actions

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    Ryleigh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is sad but true. Leaders have alot of power making it harder for others survive due to lack of money and leadership.

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    𝕮𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖊
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now that I think about it, I have never, in my life, seen my phone in my dreams.

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    Brafne Heiwer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe it's about overreacting and making a big deal out of nothing.

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    Nijlenna Rusty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This also looks like my government, yet I know it is meant differently.

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    Lady Goldberry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't get why the family have drumsticks stuck in their throats...

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