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				kouros of the industrial age (boy). oil on canvas. 2004 © 
    demetrios vakras
			
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								In Australia our government has indicated that we should all work till we drop. To secure our future we apparently have to copulate like crazy, keep our numbers up & have our offspring support us... (Sounds a little like what they already do in the 3rd world...?). This is the boy version (there is a girl one too). The purpose here is to represent us reduced to the bare fundamentals of our existence, mouths through which to eat, a heart to pump the blood & genitals for procreation.... Mechanise procreaton to breed on an industrial scale. This is an intellectual "rationalism", which contrary to convention has nothing to do with the rational, but rather a rationing of the rational to its barest minimum... And it doesn't matter if its logical foundations are not sound..... 
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