Thread by @owenbroadcast

yes: i have something i am very pleased to finally show you. its been incubating for a while, but it is ready. it requires a little explanation so step into my thread. here are some preview images to entice. all these images are available as prints here:

owen-cyclops.myshopify.com/collections/in…

soviet propaganda is notorious in the history of art for a variety of reasons. theres a subset of these images that focus on religion, specifically on being anti-religion. perhaps you have seen some things like this before. for example, this one says, "i see no god"

i was going over these while doing some research and it occurred to me that most of them operate on what i would call a visual rhetorical device. theyre quite well done and straightforward. for this reason, i thought it would be easy to flip their message + make them pro-religion

so thats what i did. i thought i'd start with five images. it took a while to decide which images to use, to make the designs happen, and then i had to do a few test prints to make sure they looked the way i wanted them to, like propaganda posters. im very pleased with the result

this is the first one. this initially kicked off the whole idea, because when i saw this woman, i didnt think of this room she was in as a prison. its more like a safe haven, shielding her from the dark and malevolent forces outside. the original says: a prison for heart and mind

next, this "i see no God" image. obviously i'm familiar with the idea of "i can't see God, therefore he isn't real". i thought this was an ironic angle to take as one of the main attributes of God (to me) is that he sees all things, so, this one basically completed itself.

this is a cool one i found that i instantly knew i would use. the text on the left says "Everybody understands that where work is being done – the priest and the drunk are both doing harm". i liked the frame of the imagery here a lot, so i decided to take it in this direction:

this one is from the cover of an atheist magazine but i knew i had to use this image. this one was interesting because it almost already reads as a pro-religion image, to me. so, i just made the priest explicitly triumphing over this evil force thats aligned itself with darkness:

lol if youre following this thread as im posting i just noticed i posted the last image with the placeholder text at the bottom instead of the actual text, one sec...

finally: i love the symbolism here. its pretty rare i encounter "totally new" combinations of symbols but the priest milking the church like a cow is really great, to me. i think of the cow as a nourishing, life giving creature, so the comparison to the church, its perfect really

thats the story. like i said ive been incubating this one for a while and i ordered a few test prints and tweaked the colors and finish just to make sure it had the exact feel i wanted for the prints so, im really happy with how they turned out, both irl and as images themselves.

little note on ordering them, if you decide to do so, they say how large they are, they're either 12x16 or 12x18 so i usually recommend people also, if they want, just order a frame elsewhere that will fit it, that way it can match your room / house / general vibe.

hope u find this cool. been wanting to show u them. last plug, as i get into more projects like this, this is the kind of thing people see "behind the scenes" on patreon so, if ur on there, u seen these percolating for.. a while now. thanks for partaking of the vibe either way 👀

mfw the russians have found this thread

привет друзья, я тоже снежный христианин