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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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NadineMorris-Wieringa
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9 years ago Created 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.

KristiZoebelein
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you follow the physics, they are actually rowing with each other, not against.

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Cosi
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

actually, they both parents are pushing in the same direction here

ErikHamlin
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, they're rowing in opposite directions...

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PIForward
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see the father as a supporting presence, but invisible.

Drew Cannon
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The physics is ambiguous which maybe is part of the point. If the father is under water then he is helping. If he is also above water, then they are struggling against each other. Perhaps they are both trying to move and getting nowhere. Like a lot of good art there is a lot of room in the interpretation here.

Cami La Torre
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Single mother having to be both mother and father. Be as strong as a mom and dad, be two people to the children, even though it's tough and she's just one woman.

Nikita Gill
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's about how a woman plays her role as a mother and also as a father for her child.

AdityaMaheshwari
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Couples nowadays separate so easily so that they don't even think much about the kid.. no one is looking after the kid here.. :(

Allan Carpenter
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even in a marriage it can be like two parallel worlds.

Sally Peterson
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's a Widow not a divorce. There's sadness in the portrait, not anger (typically associated with divorces). He still lives within her but she can't feel it and looks back at where she came from. She's alone in her sadness because we can feel connected with technology but when you strip that away and sit in Nature you realize you're alone. Even tho right behind her is the child whom she could connect with. But her Aline's and sadness is preventing that.

MiklósNagy
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9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Am I the only one who noticed that neither of them cares about the kid?

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    RrezeOsmani
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    some man just want to watch the world burn

    JasonH.
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damnit! I thought the exact same thing but you beat me to it!

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    CatharinaOlsen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I take this as a comment on global warming

    KarenBerg
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Appears to be Global Warming

    SamSidhu
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People are careless they do not care the earth ...

    PeggyAndriola
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    all these men have suits on, I believe its corporate office or bankers burning the earth down....

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People think it's just global warming, but actually there are a handful of people who are doing all this without getting noticed..!!

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    TinyDynamine
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The words on there are the days of the week in case you were wondering.

    FrancesTuer
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For me I see this as the days that have gone by have added to the middle aged spread - the younger slimmer me is somewhere inside.

    SarahParker
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With time, you'll learn to uncover your true self

    HollyHamilton
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has many interpretations yet the basic idea in each is reasonably accurate. This could as easily be a man.

    Bernadette Grabowska-Kirk
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To me this depicts the layers of responsibility that a woman takes on throughout her life and this woman has decided it's time to peel off those layers and become one with nature again.

    JenniferSiedschlag
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like how it looks like a measuring tape, like the woman's worth is completely wrapped up in how fat or thin she is.

    MikeHillyer
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As you get older and the days go by, you get layers of time on you.

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With each passing day, you are getting older and no matter how hard you try, you can't escape. the same time will never come back..!!

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    JessicaRudd
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    9 years ago Created 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.

    KendallFrye
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kid trapped inside a man's body... that's what I see

    JenjenIni
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or children not having their childhood, having to be too grown up before their time.

    ChaerRenae
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Feeling trapped in a cage of being an adult but feeling like a child. Me to a tee.

    TonyBalthazar
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As he grows he HAS a choice, society has chosen his mould, but he can choose what to do with it!

    ValerieMarcotte
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An astrologer told me once to remember that "All men are little boys".

    LudmilaFomina
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a boy hidden in every man. Sometimes this boy gets very sad

    LauraSebastian
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Has any one else noticed that the child has no arms?

    CupcakeQueen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He does. They're behind his back. Not very noticeable, but there's a slight outline.

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    mohamad
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The boy has no hands.So he can't play,he can't discover the world;All he can do is wait and grow in a cage of certain rules and limitation in a dead and cold environment.

    starla4
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boys are told to "be a man", so they aren't allowed to cry or play with the "wrong" toys, etc. It's not to fair to instill your gender expectations into a child who doesn't know who he wants to be yet.

    RebeccaPinto
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed. The masculine-shaped cage and toy gun aren't very subtle. This one's easy.

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    AuburnSkies
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That moment when you realize you're using a phone to look at this...

    JohnNathanNeilDion
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ensnared by technology and becoming increasingly attached and dependent to it

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You start using a smartphone for your convenience and don't realize when you get addicted to it and now it won't leave you, no matter how hard you try to leave it..!!

    MonicaGathoni
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The phone has become an extension of ourselves... We have made it a small god. To a point we ignore the things in life that really matter. It's painful and sad and it will cost you.

    PhamAnh
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the more we use smartphone, the more dependant and stupidier we are going to

    LuEmily
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are being taken over by the web. Haha

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    HebiHime
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is not America, it is developed countries

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    JennBurns
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All the garbage we consume. With our bodies & our minds.

    DarleneAyars-Feazell
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the symbolic obesity of our superficial consumption of commercial c**p in our lives

    LaurenAshley
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's called stereotyping. Not racism. I'm American and I'm very fit and I hate eating fast food and junk food. Not all Americans eat McDonald's

    GlynisLailann
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This picture should be put up in every public space the world over where large quantities of junk food is consumed.

    starla4
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As an American, I saw this to mean that increased obesity is the result of capitalism making garbage food easier to obtain than healthy food.

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    FidouDidou
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    explains why i never get to work on time :P

    RebeccaPinto
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not much traffic for all those pathways. Are we not using enough of our brains? Alternatively, how necessary is modern life's complexity?

    olga
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where are all we even going in life?

    CarolStapleton
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...especially if you're on this junction as a few of the roads lead to 'nowhere' lol xx

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    JohnNathanNeilDion
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our lives are getting more and more intricate and complicated

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indeed a brain, showing how easy it was to think about anything before and how complicated it is nowadays..!!

    FrankLawson
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where do you get off the information highway?

    PriyaChana
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All roads lead somewhere and nowhere. Only the mind can tell

    GeorgePowell
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's surreal is this does not look surreal.

    Allan Carpenter
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is the shape of a brain and has characteristics of a brain.

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    chrisandy229
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The man is trying to turn back time by rolling the clock counter-clockwise.

    JackBetts
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like it's saying " running or working out of time (eventually death)"

    CarolStapleton
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always under time constaints as am I

    GeoffHall
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time diminishes everything and everybody . embrace the time u have and go and do something interesting .

    PriyaChana
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are hamsters... slave to time

    LilyQuinn
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    .....so many peoples lives. I would say mine, but some are much more stressful.....

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    JuliaCandalisa
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    9 years ago Created 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.

    CarolStapleton
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe not a dance, possibly an assault JuliaCandalisa

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    HazelWaring
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one actually seems lovely to me, like love can grow on nothing.

    AmberDykes
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like the greenery of the earth, we too will one day crumble back into it. Enjoy the dance while the breath of life still blooms in us.

    DanitraDavid
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All we are is dust in the wind. The land is us, we are the land. We behave as if we are separate. I make it a point to write my first take, then read what artists truly meant to communicate, some are more obvious then others

    James Wack
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Fleeting moment"... it's only algae and mold, after all.

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    AnneHopkinson
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    9 years ago Created 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.....

    DavidManuel
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see this woman has become stuck being someone else's resource. She is a storage box of information and tasks that the other treats the privilege of acquiring, like yanking open a drawer and grabbing it from them as from a piece of furniture. She is disregarded as a person.

    BrianLinscheid
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To me it makes me think that the man is desperately trying to find out what is going on inside of his wife, and the wife has all these thoughts and feelings that she is storing away and not sharing with him. So the man feels small and overwhelmed trying to search out what is going on inside of her. She looks disinterested in the home/attic, storing away another thought as he is desperately trying to salvage his relationship.

    Kimberly Gaver
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And time is running out (it's nearly midnight).

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    BirchyCat
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of a Dali painting.

    LauraSebastian
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Its 5 minutes to 12. Hes dressed in a formal suit. Shes disinterested and in a flowing gown. Men are literal creatures women are emotional creatures. He keeps shoving literal dogma into her and shes had enough. The time is over for patriarchy.

    AmberDykes
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A man trying to find the directions to whatever complex issue is going on with the woman.

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    AliShan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Camera or Bugs everywhere

    MichelleMironenko
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everyone is watching us at this point. We have no privacy

    KimberlyMcCloud
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your always being watched by the government

    EvansNorbert
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Instead of exploring the vast universe, which is depicted by the beautiful moon, we are busy spying on each other.

    RafikSalama
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The intelligent Society, we want to know everything about you, to serve you.

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    DeeGee
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    9 years ago Created 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.

    KlaudiaSzczepaniak
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also if you have water in your brain (woda w mózgu) it simply means that you aren't the smartest person or your ideas lack common sense.

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    StephTrombetta
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Business corporations filling your brain with the understanding that bottled plastic water is more convenient and healthy for you than water out of the tap.

    JuliaCandalisa
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun fact: most headaches are due to dehydration. Drinking a lot of water is the easiest and fastest way to relieve them.

    JoyceMcNamara
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or feed your brain or it dries out.

    VonJocks
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does anyone else think of an iceberg, with the majority of it hidden under water?

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    DanitraDavid
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    #trippy :) first take; man/woman...second I see a woman and child. Mother. Mother Earth. All entertwined in connection, and in mystery

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Plants, trees or forests are the reason that life still exists or they generate the life.

    Maggie Winter
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are so many different pieces of people and they all combine in a relationship

    Allan Carpenter
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The body is a plant in fact. The spirit animates it.

    ValerieMarcotte
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jack in the Beanstalk meets Jill in the Grapevine

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    WendyBarnhart
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The foundation of society is eroding.

    Daria Harrison
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like that, but I would say that humanity is eroding ...

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    JennBurns
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Society built on the backs of laborers.

    WhitneyBrown
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Building success and treasure for ourselves, but we are left empty and unsatisfied.

    BrandiWilloughby
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    we've built our civilizations on the backs of common peoples.

    JoshOlkowski
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Society's demands are eating him up inside.

    Brandon Jones
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The kingdom of God is within man but man is building an external fascade leaving himself empty

    NicoleZoch
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?

    Carrie Riggs
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are slaves to society. It uses us and leaves us hollow and weak.

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    GraceBarclay
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Caged wisdom. We do not listen to the wisdom of people who have lived life

    JustynaBarucha
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Magritte byłby dumny Panie Morski. Pozdrawiam

    JoyceMcNamara
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Caged wisdom comes with maturity and age.

    HeleneGarnes
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, most owls actually fall into the lower range of bird intelligence

    LiamPowell
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    we choose to cage our spirits inside our heads, when there's so much more to explore!

    AdlianaAdnan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wisdom just been kept in old folks memories. Not free to be told to youngs.

    AdlianaAdnan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wisdom just been kept in old folks memories.

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    SallyHart
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our thoughts are manipulated

    MistrzVarflock
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or - thinking's what makes you fly. You're gonna crush if you ever stop.

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    KarenBerg
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagination is the mother of invention

    LipikaDhawan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our eyes see what our mind wants them to see

    AngelleAlbrechtWebb
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amazing. Reminds me of Leonardo da vincis flying machine

    ErikTrickey
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are bodies; minds, and all senses are part of a machine pilotted by a construct of preference which we name our 'self'.

    PriyaChana
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Highland pressure... is when we don't oil the brain or feed our soul

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    PriyaChana
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are nature..beautiful and delicate. Part of this ecosystem

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trees have life in them.. let them live..!!

    LaurieThrasher
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beautiful, can smell the damp forest ground

    MicroBioMan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man is a part of nature and the natural world, whether he/she realizes it or not.

    RebeccaFrankel
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nature is a conscious being, she is aware and awake and beautiful.

    Xaim MirXa
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beauty lies in Nature and Nature put that beauty in Man

    Cos Newton
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The most beautiful, it makes me heart sing

    Allan Carpenter
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She seems self contained. Beautiful but indifferent. Like a true tree.

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    IlincaNe
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    9 years ago Created 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

    IoanaNeagu
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or maybe it is the history that it is repeating all the time

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    RebeccaFrankel
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the guy only thinks he is trapped. he doesn't look up beyond his umbrella because he is busy protecting himself from his perceived fears, the only thing he knows is the rain and the uphill walk, it's bleak in his world. If he would take down his umbrella and look up he would see that he could fly free too like the birds...

    JoYoung
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Life is a constant up hill battle.

    GeoffHall
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The circle of life . but not as we typically see it

    CamLyQuach
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the meaning of it is a Circle of destructive (negative)thoughts lead the way the man goes same old, go around and around and the man havent aware of it yet

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    AndrewBlikken
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    9 years ago Created 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.

    MarissaNoakes
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see a puppet pulling the strings of a human....which is interesting

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    PIForward
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The small figure is a puppet. We're being manipulated by things that aren't real.

    DesaraXhura
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see a pupet controlling a men! To my interpretation we used to be the ones controlling the show now is the show controlling our lives. Could easily connect it the influence media has in the way we act and go through our lives, to the images we build we think we hae to live up to.

    DevannAtkinson
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our bodies and minds are controlled by the phases of the moon. It goes back 1000's of years. I almost think the puppet is the ocean tide. our bodies are made up of a large portion of water, look what the moon does to the tides all over the world……..it is 100% proven fact that the full moon brings chaos with it. my mother was a 911 dispatcher at the busiest detachment in Surrey. She had crazy stories every full moon. My Aunt and good friend are ER nurses. Again, it can't be denied. We are controlled by the moon……parts of us are anyway ;) I do realize the painting is of a waning crescent moon. Just had to throw in my facts to back up my interpretation ;)

    KellyMontegut
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I saw that too. We are controlled by the phases of the moon.

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    DaveOs-bor
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it represents sleeping. Dreaming. The moon is essential here. During daytime the puppeteer might control the puppetb but who knows who controls you (or your mind) during your sleep

    Bernadette Grabowska-Kirk
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The moon controls the tides and all natural rhythms ... the man has forgotten this in his busy-ness ... but the child tries to remind him of the natural flow ...

    PriyaChana
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One day the puppet will save us... be kind in the day

    AmandaRaynes
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The inner child keeping the adult self at least functional.

    CharleneAdams
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    kids are the best puppet masters

    BonitaPotgieter
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree with you, our kids know we will give them the moon if it was in our reach and the work and play on that manipulating us and pulling our strings as they so wish!!

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    HeddwenCreaney
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I took one meaning to be that we are controlled by what we try to manipulate. We're controlled by the games we try to play, and in trying to act as puppet master, we loose control of ourselves.

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    JuliaCandalisa
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    9 years ago Created 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?

    ZoëCansdale
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Children today have so much of their lives based inside with new technology and gadgets, it seems a false reality (hence the painted duller clouds on the inside walls, the illusion of reality), yet when they actually take a step outside they become less interested in their toys and see the real beauty of nature and life outdoors.

    StephanieSchneider
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm definitely seeing strong overtones of feminism. A woman before broke through the walls of the painted sky so that a girl after her could see the real sky. The balcony is an interesting touch as well, showing either limitations/obstacles or protection based off your interpretation.

    JoyceMcNamara
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everyone's inner child can see the beauty from within their own walls..

    CarolStapleton
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see a woman, reduced to small and childlike in comparison to the universe upon which she looks

    Cami La Torre
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Little girl dreaming to become a princess. Very optimistic. (The cutout is a princess dress)

    VonJocks
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The silhouette may not just be the older woman (with her inner child inside) -- The shape and hairdo remind me of Alice in Wonderland.

    HeddwenCreaney
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this is about the promise of growing up: the freedom and beauty that as a young child you imagine being an adult will be like, but when you look back on those un-chained dreams you see that all along, you were restricted by society to be a certain way (hence from the child's perspective she can't see that the doorframe is shaped in a woman's outline)

    CharlieKetchen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also see the doorway she is standing in as the outline of an older woman in a large dress?

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    Sarah Hubbard
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm trying to figure out the symbolism of the bird...

    Cami La Torre
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If we could focus our attention back to nature, the earth could become a beautiful place once again.

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    NicholasPerpiglia
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    9 years ago Created 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.

    DanielleAugustine
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What we would truly be like, if there were nothing to restrain us- a wild pig once muzzled

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People should control on their words, they can hurt others.

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

    I see a corporate dog adorning a muzzle with pointed interest at how this affects his public image.

    Emilie Gardiner
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We might think we're the most advanced animals of all, but we all share something with animals: emotions, love, and instincts.

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    KimberleyFox
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Trying to fit the stereotype of beauty

    JackieJohnson
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every one looks the same underneath. Just different coverings.

    Emilie Gardiner
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're trying to be something we're not.

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    JustinStrange
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How we are too focused on ourselves to see what's in front of us.

    TheKer7
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Focused with ourself yes, not seeing the beauty outside yes, but how are we defining us but the whole wrong distorted reasons? The things that we are not. Looking with our eyes and seeing what we are not. Looking at out brain instead of listening our heart. imo

    Cami La Torre
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Taking a look inside ourselves. SELF REFLECTION

    LauraSebastian
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looking for original thought. The eyes seem to be looking for the brain. Everyone wants to tell us how to percieve the world.

    RebeccaFrankel
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    we think we're looking out when in fact we're looking in...

    CamLyQuach
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The man doesnt see the real world outside... the world in his mind is all he see

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    KellyRenders
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Using money to get to higher grounds

    XavierMalagon
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how banks unstably inflate markets through inflation , here this concept is illustrated in unstable stacked coins

    HuangZiling
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Credit meltdown and the asset price bubble

    AdaSh
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, it's the "owner" the higher they are the less they have to invest (Hence less coin at the high ends) and the worker has to take more steps to reach the top because the towers will grow more and more with all the money that is on the ground and can only make them more money by letting the workers try to get to the top by adding more to their current and every level they reach...

    AdaSh
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also forgot to ad that is never safe for them to make it to the top cuz the tower might brk (wood sticks) not supportive enough... Sick society we live in!

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    NaketaBonselaar
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The foundation of our finance system

    PhilipAtkins
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pretending that the euro is working better than it is. Presenting debt as profit

    BrooklynGehring
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The foundation of success is not always stable.

    Cami La Torre
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Climbing the ladder of wealth. Stacking our pennies to get to higher ground.

    LauraSebastian
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Making it look as if there's more money than there is, so people keep investing in those businessmen who make a big show of their hard work for your money. But its all a sham. Bernie Madoff.

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    Draakhan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A sign says that this is the street of members of co-operative society in communism. In those times in Poland in Gdańsk were build very long buildings called "falowiec" (the longest one has 850m) having a large amount of small flats.

    NickName
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sign is in polish, translates into: Associates ( Cooperators / Co-operatives / Coagents ) Street

    LauraSebastian
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the sign says co-operative, no one is really cooperating. Everyone is isolated. Mislabeling.

    RitikaVerma
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Living inside boxes - we've created for ourselves. Everyone has the same space, each one uses it differently.

    SárelleHætta
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everybody has to fit in the box...

    GraceBarclay
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We live our lives in boxes not communing with each other to make our society better. No social interaction in this picture at all.

    Cami La Torre
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Communism. Sticking as many people in tiny flats, Apts as possible. Same square. Getting higher and higher.

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    AleksandraAdamczyk
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it seems to me that the nature and the works of human can cooperate and complement each other.

    joel méndez
    Community Member
    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All things must pass; even great civilizations...

    Ritwik Raghav
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All are supposed to be equal, not only in feasting but in burdens too. Alas, one contributes a lot more than others.

    Fanch Caillé
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nature is the temple. (= "Deus sive Natura", Spinoza)

    LauraSebastian
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Were finally learning to work with the natural world. A hole has been punched through the archaic thinking of the human subjugation of the natural world.

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    PhilipAtkins
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    9 years ago Created 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.

    JonathanM
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The internal resourses of the US are for, yet insufficient for, a voracious few.

    LauraSebastian
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Its a US shaped fish bowl. America is living in a fishbowl of climate change denial.

    AdaSh
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bigger fish smaller fryer pan. Don't bite more than u can chew..

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    BobbiNewell
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created 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.

    RebeccaFrankel
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "The Physical Impossibility of Vulnerability in the Mind of a Child"..? Youth always believes itself to be immortal, yet danger is constantly only a playful strike away.

    ElMarra
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This sorta reminds me of the film kes... Any kid no matter where they're from has the ability to 'fly'... It is society that cuts their strings...

    AdityaMaheshwari
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There may be many fake beauties or happiness that can attract you to be like them but once you believe them, you are trapped..!!

    OanaAlexandrov
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A kid can find his joy in the simplest things

    JostaLoos
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or maybe he should wath out cutting himself down while striking at these paper birds...not sure what they stand for though

    JostaLoos
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freedom? The surroundings are poor....so maybe the price of freedom is the risk of falling into poverty?

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    AmberWong
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    nothing is either black or white

    RhiannonSanderson
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think its a great blending of the colors, not covering one with the other. Mixing.

    AdityaMaheshwari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everything has it's pros and cons, however, together they can do wonders.

    AdlianaAdnan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Black and White. Life. Good and bad.

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    AdityaMaheshwari
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created 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.

    InancTekguc
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Climate change. It is causing some to have none and others to have too much of the elements.

    JustinStrange
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some have nothing some have too much. We always want what others have.

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

    We live in an ideal balance of nature. Any number of minor shifts in that balance and we would indeed be covered in ocean water, would in turn pollute most of our fresh water sources. Dubai shows us that, with enough resources, we can filter ocean water into fresh water. It is a shame that we continue to flaunder this precious time by allowing the very human instincts that would lift us out of this mess to become data points for use in training methods of keeping us distracted and docile.

    ElMarra
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Two days before the day after tomorrow

    chrisandy229
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The lest image illustrutes extreme heat. There's a green sign "No H2o (water). On the right side is the opposite, too much water caused by a tsunami. Both images deal with natural calamities.

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    IM
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans extinguished all other life on Earth and are now carrying the weight of their actions with regret and shame.

    DanielaAlexandra
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holding on to things that are no longer alive. Being slaved by memories and becoming miserable

    GraceBarclay
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are slaves to our past and cannot let go.

    Jacinta Breen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We can't take everything with us, what's the point

    CsillaIhnatiuc
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Struggling for things that do not provide you any happiness, food, or shelter.

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    JustinStrange
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Overcrowding. We all live on top of each other.

    AntoinetteBraat
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We R all living in A material world, captured by our posessions. It looks to me, the boy/man has broken free from that particular kind of captivity and stands there on the roof , wondering pindering what it would B like to go back to basics; FREEDOM, nature, feelings

    Steve Divjak
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The confine spaces of home got “us” looking elsewhere

    Serban Cosmin
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We can't see the nature because of the taller and taller buildings

    LauraSebastian
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Overpopulation. Weve pushed to the outer limits of our resources and theres no where else to go.

    CamLyQuach
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A person stands on a bunch of abandoned houses seems kinda lost.

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    BonitaPotgieter
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    9 years ago Created 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...

    Norn
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    holding up for too long

    BenScott
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humanity is starting to see that oil isn't everything.

    AnnabelleBureau
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being free from the disgusting filter we have been forced to see through.

    LauraSebastian
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those are swimming goggles. Oil in the oceans.

    ElMarra
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should've gone to Specsavers

    JustinStrange
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can only hold back the tears for so long..

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    JustinStrange
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    PhilipAtkins
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money is only paper, fit for flights of fancy physically. It only has the meaning that society assigns it

    AnnaPåLandet
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    earn money, spend money, earn money, spend money... and so on, and so on.

    Henriette M
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the people in charge waste the money and the hard work of the others, maybe?

    SarahNelson
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Working hard to throw money away

    DarleneAyars-Feazell
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Climbing the ladder of success to fritter the reward away.

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    PhilipAtkins
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    9 years ago Created 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

    CharlieKetchen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To me it looks like the donkey and carrot situation, with the person barking orders at the walking man. Like a boss having control etc.

    JostaLoos
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's the voice inside his head, telling him to go on doing things he doesn't want to do

    AdlianaAdnan
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Follow with hesitation. Puppet.

    CsillaIhnatiuc
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is the fine line between being controlled and break free from it.

    Shannon
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have control over who i allow to be my boss. I have a choice.

    AnitaPócsi
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don`t think so. It may mean that someone else leads him, just a "small" people, who he shouldn`t listen to.

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    TyYamnitz
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mind is influenced by its environment

    Cami La Torre
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The winter of our minds. Solstice. Dark side of your brain

    IM
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are no real borders betwwen the inner and the outer world.

    LauraSebastian
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Now is the winter of our discontent"

    GraceBarclay
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our brains are dead, right for picking by carrion

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    Mad Harlequin
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Men are slaves to sexuality? (since a man is in the cage but the female part is free)

    Cami La Torre
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Slave to sexuality. Hummingbird face. "Just trying to get a taste" but it's unattainable. Some of its not even real. An illusion

    Mad Harlequin
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not a hummingbird. That's a waldrapp/toki (Geronticus eremita/Nipponia nippon). More likely a waldrapp since toki have black bills.

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    DarleneAyars-Feazell
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    9 years ago

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    Without a woman a man has no wings

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    JonathanM
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    9 years ago Created 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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    LauraFox
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    9 years ago Created 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.

    MaxWu
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Love sends us to the moon easily, the hard part is to stay on it.

    CharlieKetchen
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd agree with Laura, it's got to be those life debates you have late at night

    IM
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We feel alone because we are not looking in front of us.

    AntoinetteBraat
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the scale of balance is totally out of balance

    GrażynaŻegleń
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "O dwóch takich co ukradli księżyc" i zastanawiali sie gdzie go ukryć przed ludzmi...

    DarleneAyars-Feazell
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Loneliness/despair in expectations of romance

    AntoinetteBraat
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God has givien us life, but most of us prefere to live our life with or in the dark.... das but true

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    PatsyForsey
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No matter how big your nest egg is, it still won't be big enough to build a stairway to heaven....

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

    I see many businesses joined as one large cancerous entity, fantically pursuing "growth" each quarter, and even once this bubble has burst because they have no more substance within to grow any further, they stand atop their spectacle, blinding themselves with the beacon of false hope that they would have the world follow.

    Maggie Winter
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can break away from tradition and make your own light

    Ritwik Raghav
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We reached moon. We killed Earth.

    Cami La Torre
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Breaking out of the corporate shell.

    LiamPowell
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    worship the one with the most money

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    MalinaAlexandra
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Demons inside us are killing us or that dark side inside each of us

    ChristinaCroddy
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe killing relationships... as you said the demons inside us... or evil

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    Aitor Tilla
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe is that true self that we always try to hide. The thorns as all the harm we make to ourselfs.

    DarleneAyars-Feazell
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The the damage caused by thorns jealousy and insecurity

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    Ritwik Raghav
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Scavengers inspired by dead beliefs.

    Michael Halsall
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The "bIrdman" figures remind me Hieronymus Bosch's paintings of Hell

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    Shannon
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    See me for who i really am.

    Ling Wang
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The spirit within oneself would lead the mastermind to peace and freedom in the end

    AntoinetteBraat
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    as free as a bird? free your mind and the rest will follow

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    Shannon
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are prisoners to the vessel we were born into.

    MarionSharples
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Either crazy in a phycho-clinic or addicted to phyco-medicines

    AdrianJezierski
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would say, that our life is dependend on present and future medicines and drugs which is not true. The drug industry is manipulating us, offering temporary solutions which in the end cause more damage and we need more, so we pay them more... It is like a never-ending rotation - prison.

    Albion Allkanjari
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Addiction to drugs, it's pretty much impossible to escape from it!

    susanjdc
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Back in the days they outcasted sick people. Nowadays we endure the effects of the medication we take to be part of society.

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    Norn
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    PiumiRajapaksha
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how all comments on these pictures are each individuals take on the meaning of the photo and yours just says 'ew'

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    DarleneAyars-Feazell
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    depending on others' support or getting a leg up

    Shannon
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Walking in someone elses feet (instead of shoes)?

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    DouglasHamilton
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fuel has become our water. Our way of life depends upon it.

    MalinaAlexandra
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Economy. Something like exploitation.

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    DarleneAyars-Feazell
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created 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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    EmmaWood
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think something might be bugging him :)

    GeoffHall
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We all have our bugs to bare . be thankful . there is always someone worse off than you .

    CarlynChapman
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of experiments that were done using cockroaches tied together. One was headless and was the legs. Another roach was strapped to its back, brain intact and their circulatory systems were joined. This awkward pairing demonstrated that some cognitive functions could be shared.

    Cami La Torre
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being burdened by things that bug us.

    DarleneAyars-Feazell
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The burden on man of the lowest of creatures

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    JonathanM
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    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freedom during evolution progresses to a mere symbol of liberty.

    Cami La Torre
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The elitism of america. We think being American is superior, that it is one step further in profession.

    Jacinta Breen
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man always in search of liberty, freedom, still hasn't achieved it

    MohdKarim
    Community Member
    9 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We evolved from carrying a weapon to hunt to bearing the torch to protect.

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    PhilipAtkins
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    9 years ago Created 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