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Toni Hamel is a Toronto-based artist who analyzes the complex human behavior in her artworks. She works with different mediums, including oil and alkyd, to realize her ideas in the form of paintings, drawings, or sculptures.

Hamel describes her work as "an illustrated commentary of human frailties". She uses her personal experiences and observations to create satirical illustrations that reflect on and interpret the psychological unease characteristic of our age. "Virtues and vices, the holy and the profane, the good and the bad all share equal weight in her work and supply an infinite source of material for her investigations," reads Hamel’s website. "Pointing to historical and psychological references while tackling issues of universal interest, Hamel’s narratives question our behavior to eventually alert us about the repercussions of our current thinking models."

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

Are they adding stripes in an attempt to beautify everything or are they taking the stripes to make the animal "normal"?

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

Although it seems like deforestation for pencils but I believe it means the death of creativity for more "useful" things to do (the death of the last pencil)

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

This one is pretty powerful and it has so much meaning. We have the tools to live in a colourful world, but we have to work for it. Also, we have the power to both create and destroy our nature. And then there is a pessimistic interpretation, like, all this greenery and beauty is fake.

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

people trying to change everything and will ruin them in the end

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

How does that guy in the back think he's going to catch the giraffe with a net?

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Susann Campbell
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"You say that this is all I need to find your brood that has gone missing, so are they all pink like you are?"

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

"So I was telling Mary Jane that if he was going to be living here he has to fit in with the decor or he goes ".

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