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Vannjenta
Vannjenta aka Hanne Tosterud is a 32.28 year old girl, has been a member since July 25, 2007, has scored 6,537 submissions, giving an average score of 0.53, helping 60 designs get printed.
I want to ask the question no one seems to be asking. What do you think this shirt stands for? Is the message pro or against war. For me its showing the dark side of the war, but then again the people on the product pic holding an axe doesn't seem to be that horrored... Could I be wearing this shirt and without my knowledge celebrating the greatness of a war I don't approve?

What are your thoughts about the symbolism of this shirt?

J-Ray
J-Ray on Apr 08 '08 at 2:43am
OG
Ellsswhere
   Ellsswhere on Apr 08 '08 at 2:54am
as with "most" (never means all) art the entire beauty is that the viewer makes their own interpretation whether the artist intended to convey what they see or not.



so if the artist attempted to glorify war and you the wearer looks at it and believes it condemns war and some passer by assumes you dipped yourself in kool-aid... its really pointless to ask what it means, because for all we know the artist simply wanted half the shirt to be red, and realized it looked like blood, so why not add bodies, oh and a black circle would balance it all out...



art is a great mystery, contemplate its purpose but never assume you know the true meaning... much of art is contrived
Vannjenta
Vannjenta on Apr 08 '08 at 3:16am
I agree, but I still think its interesting to hear peoples assossiations around the design of this shirt, since the art is so powerful!
EricDiaz
EricDiaz on Apr 08 '08 at 3:40am
it's pro GOG is what it is, is what it is.
Steak Mtn
Steak Mtn on Apr 08 '08 at 5:40am
It's pro-carnage, anti-exercise & completely warless. Promise. Wear it with the morbid ne'er-do-well moxie that youth shrouds you in.
berrynoir
berrynoir on Apr 08 '08 at 5:43am
*sigh* That shroud is gone. I'm just gonna wear it cause I think it's a fucking cool tee shirt and I like the way it looks, 'k?
ladrones
   ladrones on Apr 08 '08 at 10:45am
the guy makes stuff for no idea records it cant be pro war

berrynoir
berrynoir on Apr 08 '08 at 10:48am
If you don't understand it, chances are your friends won't either. Tell them it's a shirt about your last camping trip. Then invite them camping.
SoulfumeInc
SoulfumeInc on Apr 08 '08 at 10:50am
^lol!
fatheed
   fatheed on Apr 08 '08 at 10:50am
It's clearly PRO-WAR.



All artists are pro-war.
V1ctorya
V1ctorya on Apr 08 '08 at 10:51am
actually, if you squint, it's the reconstruction of a person in deconstructed parts - with the black orb as the head, the dome the torso forming the arms and, you know, stuff.



I also read it as a political statement against My Little Ponies.



Damn, if not a sugar need, maybe a salt daddy is needed in my case.
ladrones
   ladrones on Apr 08 '08 at 10:52am
wait fatheed is right,

i have a unquenchable bloodlust how could have i forgotten?
Themilkman666
Themilkman666 on Apr 08 '08 at 6:15pm
Iraq war rules
redlinewk
redlinewk on Apr 10 '08 at 2:35am
It's Steak Mountain.



It's violence and mutation. WOOOO!!!
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Hardcore  Grapefruit
Hardcore Grapefruit on Apr 13 '08 at 11:47am
It looks pretty ani-war to me...but then as someone who finds the idea of war appaling, it's fitting that I'd have that response.
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