Last Poster #8

[Wing Woo Gar]

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Wow! That’s a gorgeous view

 

[Gyakuto]

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I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop bear.

 

[drop bear]

I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop bear.

It makes its own quiet statement.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

I’m trying to understand the juxtaposition of a beautiful seascape and a knife stabbed into a wooden post. I think it’s a exposition of existential angst regarding the true meaning of nature and man’s position within it. Nature has the ability to be violent (like the knife) and also sublimely beautiful like the shape of the knife’s blade (marred, in this case, only by those awful G10 uncontoured scales - only a knife enthusiast would spot this - very subtle). One day the knife will rust and decay just as nature’s ‘fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.

Very deep, you’re very deep, drop

I see it more as a man making his stand against the absurd, saying to the cosmos 'here I am, and this is my knife'. Such a man is capable of anything, and the beauty of the landscape is incidental, though it serves to highlight the futility and heroism of his struggle.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Indeed, the artist's chosen name, drop bear, illustrates the banality of the absurd and the arbitrary nature of existence by means of a reference to antipodean fauna. He fights back, he mocks the absurd

 

[Prince_Alarming]

In a post foucaultian gesture of defiance, he questions the authority of nature to thwart him, underscoring his existential autonomy with a humble yet summative gesture

 

[Xue Sheng]

It makes its own quiet statement.