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Polish illustrator, artist, and co-owner of Morski Studio Graficzne Igor Morski creates surreal images imbued with hidden meaning. He graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań, and worked for public broadcasting in the 80s and 90s, before finally pursuing a career in press illustration. Morski opened his own studio in 1995.

"Sometimes I used to use popular symbols, such as Pinocchio’s long nose," Morski told Bored Panda. "However, most frequently I have tried to think up my own symbols. For example, [my piece] “creative archaeology” is about the commercialisation of archaeology. There, I depict a halved human head filled with the sand with a stylised figure of Indiana Jones, the archaeologist, at the top. The symbolism becomes clear. On the one hand, you have the head filled with the sand, on the other, the figure digging in it."

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

I was a single parent myself for a while. This illustrates the situation perfectly! I had to row against my ex while having the added weight of the children.

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

Or a boy growing into society's definition of what a man is supposed to be. What our definition of masculinity has evolved into.

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

We are made of Earth. When we die we will return to the earth. But, in the meantime, life is a beautiful dance.

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

We put so many thoughts and feelings into little compartments, putting off dealing with them.....

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

We say in Poland that "someone is making water out of your brain", when you are manipulated.

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

I believe that the circle with the man "traped" inside is the routine we have each day. But only the human. The birds appear to be free at all times...and the difference between them is just...sad

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

I see a child controlling his elder self. The moon is a terrific allegory for the lens of fantasy through which we viewed adulthood.

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

Inside: i am still a young girl, wishing to fly away. To escape. Why were birds born with wings, and not I?

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

Business and capitalism are just means in which society can unload aggressiveness and the desire of dominance. Deep inside we are still all animals.

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

Big fish in a little pond; america isn't as great as it thinks it is without the cooperation/water of the rest of the world.

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

His imagination lifts him up out of his impoverished surroundings. But he is also his own worst enemy: if he swings his sword the wrong way, he'll cut the strings and come crashing painfully back to reality.

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

Despite how important a thing is, there is always a limit of having it, too much of anything is a bad idea.

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

Sometimes you think you protecting yourself when the very thing you thought was protecting you ends up causing the most damage...

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

Climbing the corporate ladder just to watch your money fly away.

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

We as people are larger than those giving the orders. We literally support those in power, and yet we follow their direction

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

The true nature of humans desires the idyll of the natural environment.

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

My husband and I always have the deep discussions about our life and marriage in the middle of the night. This one really resonates with me.

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

cutting someone else´s legs won´t help you walk faster

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

The distorted reality and transformation of matter to symbolize reality in dreams

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

Freedom during evolution progresses to a mere symbol of liberty.

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

We can evolve and change, but our future is literally either going to be flooded or filled with pollution

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