I'm a big fan of Chicken Maker Kaloo. Check out this latest piece:
Man, I could look at that all day. It's not pleasant at all, but its hypnotic power cannot be denied. The disturbing, minimalist aggression on display seemingly glorifies as it trivializes the cycle of violence. Equally enthralled and repulsed, we, in our voyeurism, are implicated in the questionable morality of the endless act. We find ourselves making excuses for the boot: "Maybe the chicken deserved it?" Yet what chicken could ever deserve THAT? How many times has that chicken been kicked just while you read this? Twenty? An hundred? And are you desensitized to it? Are you...are you laughing while it happens? That poor chicken!
Or spread the atrocity around a bit: perhaps it's not one chicken being kicked many times, but an infinite succession of identical chickens, each getting their own share of the boot. Does that make it any less appalling? Sounds a lot like our daily lives, doesn't it? Can we have all "deserved it"?
Yet this is only one of the many thought-provoking art pieces on display at http://chickenmaker.blogspot.com/.
Did you ever wish for a never-ending stream of chickens created in MS Paint? Some heroic, some villainous, some not-so-easily-characterized? Chickens to root for, chickens to boo at and hiss? Chickens to never quite be able to trust? Chickens to fall in love with at first sight! Well, all that and more is why I say I'm a big fan of Chicken Maker Kaloo.
Click on the link or on the picture itself, to become a fan yourself!
Man, I could look at that all day. It's not pleasant at all, but its hypnotic power cannot be denied. The disturbing, minimalist aggression on display seemingly glorifies as it trivializes the cycle of violence. Equally enthralled and repulsed, we, in our voyeurism, are implicated in the questionable morality of the endless act. We find ourselves making excuses for the boot: "Maybe the chicken deserved it?" Yet what chicken could ever deserve THAT? How many times has that chicken been kicked just while you read this? Twenty? An hundred? And are you desensitized to it? Are you...are you laughing while it happens? That poor chicken!
Or spread the atrocity around a bit: perhaps it's not one chicken being kicked many times, but an infinite succession of identical chickens, each getting their own share of the boot. Does that make it any less appalling? Sounds a lot like our daily lives, doesn't it? Can we have all "deserved it"?
Yet this is only one of the many thought-provoking art pieces on display at http://chickenmaker.blogspot.com/.
Did you ever wish for a never-ending stream of chickens created in MS Paint? Some heroic, some villainous, some not-so-easily-characterized? Chickens to root for, chickens to boo at and hiss? Chickens to never quite be able to trust? Chickens to fall in love with at first sight! Well, all that and more is why I say I'm a big fan of Chicken Maker Kaloo.
Click on the link or on the picture itself, to become a fan yourself!
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