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URL icon « Reply #15 on: June 19, 2020, 02:43:52 PM »

I know that two women have expressed discomfort.  I can't say for sure all the supportive comments were men; seems like most were.  An implied, if not direct, opposite of fallow is fertile.  So here's a naked woman sprawled during the fallow season, waiting for fertility to resume.  And I am being careful with my words here. This is discomfiting in this context (a community who rejoices together).
I am grateful to PB for removing it.  If you want it as a piece of art, perhaps you can find it.  But to represent this joyful community, even in the midst of our grieving at our loss this year, was misguided.
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URL icon « Reply #16 on: June 19, 2020, 03:22:06 PM »

I love Sculpture and Art and I am not offended in any way by this poster....

Fallow, a field left unseeded. A woman lying peacefully naked in an empty field with a man way way back there seeding the land. Something beautiful is about to begin....
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URL icon « Reply #17 on: June 19, 2020, 03:23:12 PM »

I want that!
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URL icon « Reply #18 on: June 20, 2020, 12:29:04 PM »

Personally I don't find the poster offensive. But it evokes a strong emotion of death. And death is permanent. Hoping that the festival is not dead. Want to think of it more as rejuvenation.

Hope everyone is listening to KOTO and he solipsistic show tonight. Tried to get a couple of t shirts, all gone.
C'est la vie!
Joyeuux festival.  Cheers
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URL icon « Reply #19 on: June 22, 2020, 04:22:31 PM »

The art reminds me of dust bowl era art. We are dealing with a massive amount of sickness and death, and uproar due to ignorance spread through generations. I felt the art captured that dread, along with a glimpse of hope. Art is supposed to draw out the deep feelings of the viewer. If it was just shiny and pretty that really wouldn't grasp the absolute dread this year has become especially in the states where we are dealing with much more than a virus. When art gets hidden because someone has an issue with the image, we are left with a deeper fallow. Imagine if the sculpture of David was considered wrong because he's naked.So much fine art includes naked men and women, along with death as a means to show an appreciation of life.

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How come they don't turn the banjo up?
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