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Whether you've seen them in movies or pictures, or seen them personally, you probably know what a wind dancer is. It's a solemn, happy stick figure that flails about in the wind near a gas station or some dollar store. But Mamie Young saw something more in them: they stand as a comical background in contrast to all of the US's current problems. Mamie draws them inside of these problems as some sort of comical vehicles that tell a story about the tragic events of American life, making the whole image tragicomic, sobering, and current. Behind that stickman smile lies hollowness and anxiety.

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Why Can't You Just Pull Yourself Up

Why Can't You Just Pull Yourself Up

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Dalek Bunny
Community Member
6 years ago

I love this wind dudes

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    I Am Hollow Inside

    I Am Hollow Inside

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    Podunkus
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    6 years ago (edited)

    Speaking of hollow, in 1983 the AbEx artist Robert Motherwell made a painting titled “The Hollow Men” and although the title of the series may have been inspired by a T.S. Eliot poem about boundaries, in recent years my mind has invaded it with a different meaning. To me it looks like a demon leading the GOP elephant, followed by you-know-who and a parade of sycophants. Hollow indeed. 84AD3358-A...f-jpeg.jpg 84AD3358-A225-44D8-AF27-666BE32D3161-5edb881f0e68f-jpeg.jpg

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    No Loitering Police Enforced

    No Loitering Police Enforced

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    Kai Wendorf
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    6 years ago

    I thought that was Mando, not the police...

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    #4

    Don't Get Blown Away!

    Don't Get Blown Away!

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    cat nip nip nip
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    matrix moves

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    I'm Here To Distract You With Fear!

    I'm Here To Distract You With Fear!

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    Freya the Wanderer
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Remember the "murder hornets"? They've already dropped below the radar.

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    #6

    No Credit No Problem!

    No Credit No Problem!

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    ERIKO INAMORI
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    o_o

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    #7

    Inflated Lies

    Inflated Lies

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    I'm Just Like You

    I'm Just Like You

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    Leo H
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Karen? Is that you

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    #9

    Inappropriate Wind Dancer - Funeral

    Inappropriate Wind Dancer - Funeral

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    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I want this at my funeral.

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    #10

    Dancer Behind The Scenes

    Dancer Behind The Scenes

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    LC Greenwood
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Genius

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    Low Cost

    Low Cost

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    Podunkus
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    And low, low wages!

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    Live Nude Dancers

    Live Nude Dancers

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    AJA MASON
    Community Member
    6 years ago

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    I would go here

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    #13

    Billionairheads

    Billionairheads

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    Set It On High

    Set It On High

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    Wind Dancers

    Wind Dancers

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    Podunkus
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    6 years ago (edited)

    I love the Edward Hopper influences seeping throughout this piece, with the sunlight-and-shadow handling of open space against the emptiness of the wind dancers, connected in their mutual gaze but otherwise alone as with many of the people in Hopper’s works. Very striking.

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    Land Of The Free?

    Land Of The Free?

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    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    It needs yellow air. And orange face.

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    #17

    Perspective

    Perspective

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    FurryManiac
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    would 100 percent buy this

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    Death Of A Salesman

    Death Of A Salesman

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    Drowning In Oblivion

    Drowning In Oblivion

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    Hands

    Hands

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    Leo H
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    6 years ago

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    Why's the cop have to be white? Is this artist a racist

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    #21

    Business As Usual

    Business As Usual

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    Happy Face

    Happy Face

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    Sale

    Sale

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    Leo H
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    6 years ago

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    This is an attack on my religion. You need to remove this immediatly..oh wait I'm Christian so it's okay to bash me

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    #24

    Louis Vuitton

    Louis Vuitton

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    Attention

    Attention

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    Dorothy Parker
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Or just have air pumps on the table.

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    #26

    The Business Of Flailing Upwards

    The Business Of Flailing Upwards

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    Iwo Jima

    Iwo Jima

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    Podunkus
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited)

    I took this as a riff on agitprop in service to the American military industrial complex, which was cemented by Lyndon Johnson’s “guns and butter” economic policies. This sentiment is decades old but still relevant today, and the famous Iwo Jima tableau (it took several takes to get to the final version) is among the most parodied photo in history. I grew up in the NYC area during the Vietnam era and recall anti-war protesters chanting “Hell no, we won’t go! We won’t die for Texaco!” The men and women in our Armed Forces serve to protect the freedoms we enjoy, including both the artist’s expressions and provocations in this thread and your right to protest against it if you wish.

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    Inappropriate Wind Dancer - Crime Scene

    Inappropriate Wind Dancer - Crime Scene

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    RedRabiit
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    "Come on kids lets go to the crime scene!"

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    Here Is Your Chancey To Get Dancey!

    Here Is Your Chancey To Get Dancey!

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    Wind Dancer Liquor Store

    Wind Dancer Liquor Store

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    Gilded

    Gilded

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    Genocide Museum

    Genocide Museum

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    Death Row

    Death Row

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    Chanel

    Chanel

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    Wind Dancer Coin Laundry

    Wind Dancer Coin Laundry

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    Prada Marfa

    Prada Marfa

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    Wind Dancer Dollar Store

    Wind Dancer Dollar Store

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