• Appaloosa
    +5

    It is scary and provocative as art should be.

    • Appaloosa
      +4

      Calligraphy and painting are closely related, as is handwriting. When done well, it is art to me.

      • Maternitus (edited 6 years ago)
        +5

        With a long carreer as graffiti writer I think the lines somehow have that distinctive motion and shaping in them.

        It is scary because she is a victim as victims come: wounded, blinded by atrocities, full of hatred but trying to contain herself. She was a subject to idiocies of a few people from the other side of the planet. She is a number of conflict. Collateral. On the one hand I feel empathy, compassion for the girl, but all at the same time I feel pure hatred for the perpetrator.

        • Appaloosa
          +4

          “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.” ― Lewis Thomas, Fragile Species