So today's post I'll be continuing to present the ongoing series of sketches that was started some years ago, this is post number 2, you can see post 1 here: https://steemit.com/art/@tracer-paulo/risks-of-words-sketch-series-1
The initial intention with this series of sketches was to visually try to alert the viewer to the dangers of the loss of freedom, mainly of expression within our society, and thus also to alert for the overall loss of liberty that humanity was and is currently facing.
Detail from "TERROR ROTTING THE SKULL"
In this series I've tried to express in a graphic way some of the most dire problems, identified by my observations and interpretations of the past and current human civilization, it's cultures and interactions, now as initially it was my understanding that this problems were related to a lack of freedom, my focus here was related to free speech, which lead me to conceive this idea of representing words or phrases associated with images that would complement each other in the representation of the theme to be present in the sketch, so to me was already clear a few years ago that censorship was coming fast to the world, and for that reason the title off the series was "risks of words", this title has to me a double meaning , signifying first the idea of "words" in danger of disappearing from the dialogue and as a consequence the concepts they convey are erased from the human mind, secondly then was the literal idea that drawing this "forbidden" words would be a risky business and also the act itself would be risky, (in Portuguese my original language the word "risk" (risco) can change meaning depending on the context it can signify "in danger" (em risco) and when applied to the act of drawing it signifies scratching from the verb to scratch (riscar),hope you can realize the pun!
So continuing with the sketches in this series here we have:
TERROR ROTTING THE SKULL
The idea behind this sketch is the notion that the "TERROR" (this being the reports from staged false flag attacks and war scenarios coverage among others) we see today presented in main stream media is clearly a method of controlling and manipulating the opinion of the general public, so by presenting this terror imagery and rhetoric they (the rulers or masters) can install fear in the minds off the public, achieving in turn the desired acceptance to otherwise unacceptable measures, actions, wars or laws they want to implement , in this way the politics can justify their criminal actions by claiming they are fighting "TERROR" when in fact they seem to be creating it.
In this sketch hi wanted to represent this in a way it made it clear to see that this is in fact an old method of controlling the general public's opinion and behavior as well as the acceptance off the laws imposed by the rulers or masters. In the old days this was achieved by publicly torturing and killing the "enemies" off the state, this was done by publicly displaying the remains off those punished, sometimes they would dismember the victims and scatter their body parts, then this remains would rotten and with it the general public would be confronted every day whit his imagery off the rotting corpses and all its fell smells, so this way any idea of going against the rulers or masters would be sunken behind this fear off becoming a rotting dead, dismembered and whit body parts displayed on some public street.
Detail from "TERROR ROTTING THE SKULL"
So whit this in mind here hi represent this rotting skull put on a stick as being the image off "TERROR" being put on display for the public eyes, the idea for the skull put on display came from the beheadings presented in the "news" as being committed by the ISIS fighters by "their" propaganda machine, in the back there is a building with an open window, so we can imagine in the past that the people living there were confronted in their every day live with this terror imagery going through their window's and in to their minds, the use and representation off the window was intentional, so that a parallel can be drawn from here, for today the window will be a representation off the screen or the page off the newspaper that brings the news (offers a vision point) from world to the public eyes, the terror is presented to the public trough this window , so this "TERROR " display in the past is as the "TERROR" display in the present , what is presented to the public thought this window, the methods and the objectives are basically the same, to install fear and to achieve control over the people's minds so that they accept and conform to the actions and laws taken against their liberties by the rulers or masters.
Detail from "TERROR ROTTING THE SKULL"
This was basically the idea behind this sketch, there are some other elements and details left out off this explanation but they are in accordance to the overall perception and intention off what is presented here.
Detail from "TERROR ROTTING THE SKULL"
As this is a somehow an heavy and long explanation this post will only be featuring this piece, more from this series will hopefully follow.
This sketch was presented independently in a previous posts(here: https://steemit.com/art/@tracer-paulo/terror-rotting-the-skull-terror-apodrecendo-o-cranio) but the concept idea behind it and the details accompanying it were not given back then, the reason for the explanation on this series is related to the events taking place recently, namely the censorship of the alternative media in the social network's, I think it's a good time to repost them, now in full context.
As an additional note i would like to say that without all the information presented by all the alternative media and all the different people sharing content on the net, all this works would had probably never been created, because wile my view off the system had for long been drawn in my mind, the will to express it this way and the intention to share it here on teemit, was somehow influenced by the information they shared, so here is my humble thank you to all of you guys and girls out there sharing information pertinent to the shift in the human perception of reality, keep up the good work!
"The intention of this art piece as all the others i present here is to make the observer think, imagine, question!
The title off the work and the small introduction is a sort off guide line that represents some sense to the author , it doesn't fully describes the work as it's interpretation is free and personal.
If you find some interest on it, or not and are willing to give feedback, feel free to comment!
Tanks for your visit and appreciation! ..."