Category Archives: Art/Craft

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I took 6000 photos to create the final series of 18 images. Using Photoshop, I increased the amount of goods to give the impression that the carrier is being engulfed … This is to represent how our obsession with consuming the ‘Made in China’ products they carry creates a kind of slavery.

See them all here.

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Tokyo-based artist Thomas Romain’s two sons like to create their own fantastical characters, to which dad then applies his own professional drawing skills, years of experience and superior collection of pens and inks – surpassing the original drawings in every way, creating valuable exposure for himself and exposing his hapless offspring as cack-handed amateurs.

Fairly sure that’s what’s going on here.

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