09/01/2020
"What Is This"
A young sheeple going through puberty, questioning the meaning of everything. Come now, let us profit from it's shearing before it figure's out what is actually going on.
NOTES:
bell= captivity
excessive wool= This particular sheeple is young. He is going through puberty. His hormones are causing the wool to grow at an alarming rate. This idea is the change that teens go through as they mature. It leads them to question the world/authority that surrounds them
duck tape on bell= plays off the wool idea. Here the young sheeple has put the tape on the area where 3/5 would normally be. He cannot change the condition he is in, but that does not mean he accepts it.
3/5's compromise= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise
k12= On the side of the bell in small writing there is k12. This is the public school system. It is also the school to prison pipeline. Our public school system is also enslaved to a system that substitutes actual education for the appearance of education. Much more interested in teaching for tests and lesson plans, than actual learning. Often omitting important accounts of history and literature because it points out the huge flaws in American thinking. School choice and private schools are great if you have money, but for millions of minorities it means valuable resources being taken away from an already underfunded institution.
small horns= Knowledge of the past. Domesticated sheep come from a mountain sheep that is extremely muscular and has huge and dangerous horns. Normally I would draw sheeple with their horns cut off to symbolize the loss of history/culture/ones original purpose. "Knowledge is power"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovis
In the Bible horns also represent Moses
"The depiction of a horned Moses stems from the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of the passage found at Exodus chapter 34, specifically verses 29, 30 and 35, in which Moses returns to the people after receiving the commandments for the second time."
Michelangelo also used this symbolism when he sculpted his famous Moses statue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_(Michelangelo)
Yellow Stripe on face= A reference to West African peoples known as Igbo. This is also where "Akachi" comes from, which means "Hand Of God" in Igbo (a male and female name). This is also a reference to the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. West Africa was the center/home base of the slave trade.
https://www.google.com/search?q=igbo+face+paint&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwje4v_-xMjrAhVxjK0KHYAMAQcQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=igbo+face+&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgQIABAeMgYIABAFEB46BAgAEEM6BwgAELEDEEM6BggAEAgQHlCnTVjNVGDzamgAcAB4AIABWIgB5wOSAQE2mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=iIxOX97-JvGYtgWAmYQ4&bih=875&biw=1471&safe=strict
Circle icon with a slash on ear= "No Nothing" logo. This is something I made up. It can mean different things. For me it symbolizes a hurdle or difficulty to be overcome. A "hurdle" that is imposed upon you from the powers that be, mostly man made. People of power who oppose anything that you want to do, no matter how reasonable or good it may be, or people it may help. They are people of greed and self indulgence whose goal is to stop you, simply because it is you that is doing it. It is also the fight against nihilism. Nothing has purpose so why bother. I got this idea from Cornel West when he visited Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church some years ago. He also writes about this in his book "Race Matters"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Matters
three stripes= bar code, bars/jail, or Spirituality (usually 3,7, or 9 marks).
also a nod to Kandinsky who believed in theosophy and that different colors represent different aspects of spirituality.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/wassily-kandinsky
