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Dave VanNess

I am using the bull elk as a symbol of a masculinity fighting with another almost identical symbol. In this surreal world that these two creatures inhabit their horns have grown together into a fractal crystalline structure. Out of conflict beauty can be created. But in a grander sense only by the engagement of these two creatures can this beautiful crystal structure be created. This could be seen as the current, well seemingly eternal conflict of east and west. The things that we prize in our society are never created solely by one culture but built upon by societies from both sides of this cultural division. I am not putting a moral judgment to this but rather pointing out of how interconnected we politically, economically, culturally, and
socially.

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