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Friday
Jun042010

: oil

It is amazing how quickly an icon can be created. As horrible as the news from the Gulf sounds, it seems to come home by the images of animals caught in the oil. Maybe that is the very definition of an icon. Something that can carry meaning beyond that very thing's own intrinsic common qualities. I don't even want to look it up. I will go with that definition for now. See the image below and ask if that definition applies. See the rest of the images from the story on Lens, the NYTimes Blog, and ask the same question.



Said one commenter from VT - "You feel uneasy even "analyzing" this sort of victim portraiture. It's like a photograph of war dead, but with the crooked finger of blame pointed at us -- at our culture, at our laws, at our corrupt technoarrogance. We are the shepherds. What have we done to these uncomprehending innocents? We have burned the fields on which our flock grazed. And then we poisoned them all."

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