"psst" Vladimir

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12x19 Oil on Canvas. The story is still being written, but I just had to do this. FOR SALE - BEST OFFER. ($1.00 PRICE is not official).

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Steven Curtis
Steven Curtis Creator

April 01, 2022

You know, I have to add here...I rarely ever do political satire or commentary. It's not my "gig", although I certainly do think about it a great deal, especially with regards to the current crisis. My instinct to come out and fight is very difficult for anyone to arouse in a public way (I'm slow to bring judgment and criticism in an outward form). I almost feel embarrassed at times to do such a thing, because I actually am trying to empathize with all sides. For instance, I really don't like the idea, as I should not, of the nuclear bomb, period. No one should have to wave these things around and threaten with them.

But in this case, with this war that is being waged, at least the way I'm seeing it...the gloves have to come off here. I shake my head at least once a day, and try not to read the BBC news too much, but what I cannot...cannot fathom, is how a single person, or single group most likely, can command and wage an atrocity of this magnitude and seemingly hold everyone's feet to the fire, yet NOT sense their own responsibility in this.

I look at our civilization here in the Western world, our way of thinking, and I'm oftentimes critical of our own culture as being hedonistic, selfish, and plausibly amoral. It does not surprise me when I think of the Muslim world's astonishment, for instance, and hatred of our culture for it's abuse of our "freedoms" in the areas of sex, comedy, and the ability to slander our leaders, our own religions, etc. There is porn, and lasciviousness, and devious behavior, and drug abuse, and too much money that leads to corruption, over-indulgence, self-centeredness, the abandonment of community, the disintegration of the family, and all this even by people that we think of initially as being above all of that. If we could see ourselves as they do...sure you can see why it would be so astoundingly blasphemous in comparison (and of course we know they are not stain-free, and I myself am not lily-white...let he who is sinless cast....).

But then I turn around in another situation...this current assault on the Ukrainians and their citizens... and I see that at least our "system" of government, our way of handling crises, our democratic processes, be it the Parliment in the UK, or our own House of common elected Representatives in our own way in the U.S., the EU in general, compares with whatever type of government that is currently in power in the Kremlin, and, in artistic terms it's much like looking at a painting of Albert Einstein sitting across the table from a gorilla. Maybe Koko the Gorilla that was taught sign language quite some years ago in a California zoo?

So, maybe that's my next canvas painting... right now I'm thinking of just how I can possibly make a gorilla's face to emulate Vladimir's visage by juxtaposing the 2?

And the other thing that scares me, honestly, is that he's a gorilla with nukes. Just do one thing to piss him off and....oh crap...not sure that cage is going to hold!

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Steven Curtis
Creator
Category
Conceptual, Historical and Political
Type
Painting - Unframed
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dimensions
12.00 inches wide
19.00 inches tall
1.00 inches deep
Weight
0.50 lbs
Location
Randolph, WI, US
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