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Crapulency
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Greed Octopus |
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2020-06-26 |
2nd arm: Heavy and overfed, a young person lies surrounded by an abundance of food. He’s a glutton and can’t decide what to gorge on next: the sausage, the ham, the drumsticks or the chocolate? Maybe some wine or beer? He is obese, just like a good 30 percent of the Earth's human population (Die Zeit online,12 June 17). The people who lived hidden away in caves below him consider themselves lucky, as this excess of food allows them to "steal" a little every now and then – not enough to put on weight, but enough to stay alive at least. The food industry pumps more and more food onto the market, gluttony is what they want. Any leftovers end up rotting in containers. Enough to feed how many people?
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Greed in social networks
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Greed in social networks |
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6th arm: Without noticing it, we are increasingly slipping away from ourselves, succumbing to the world of social media and opening up to complete strangers. The greed in social networks to have as many friends as possible, to indulge in gossip, to forget that there is a real world, makes many become lonely and addicted. You define yourself only through your internet groups; “likes” are your lifeline. Since you rarely experience anything, you have nothing to tell and your friends online already know all the digital gossip there is to know. Reading books, the feel paper in your hands is a thing of the past. But at least you feel alive for a moment if you take a quick picture— but why and for whom in this fast-moving world? Insomnia and fear of being ignored online are the consequences. Our dwindling feeling of personal identity eats away at our real lives, allowing influencers to become all-powerful.
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Greed for power
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Greed for power |
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Greed Octopus |
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50199820199907 |
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7th arm: With increasing popularity, they suddenly want to try gain power over others, by becoming politicians, for example. More and more magicians, musicians and actors are entering the world of politics. The greed for power has shaped the history of mankind for so long and has ultimately brought only death and ruin. Eloquent politicians can easily spread lies and find enough followers to implement their political agendas, no matter how wrong they are. A charged socio-political climate, history has shown, regardless who is behind the greed for power, creates only losers in the long run. Greed for power manifests itself in many ways: a show of superiority, the claim to be right, the wish to impose one's will. Whether it is Buddhists expelling the Rohingya, Indian Hindus robbing Muslims of their livelihoods, Muslims bombing Christian churches, or crusaders forcibly converting infidels: throughout history, the power of religion may have done more harm than good. Attaining power through a show of strength, physical intimidation or even the use of weapons, leaves traumatized victims and robs countless people of their ancestral homelands. Power through drugs, criminal organizations, politics and world religions can tear apart established social structures and leave irreparable damage behind. Although it was difficult for people to check propaganda for truth before we had the internet, the internet has made it even easier for people today to produce and spread fake news and conspiracy theories and to make others believe just about anything.
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Greed for our planet`s resources
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Greed for our planet`s resources |
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Greed Octopus |
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50199820199908 |
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8th arm: The greed for power and the apparatus necessary to maintain it requires enormous financial resources. In many countries, these can easily be obtained through the exploitation of natural resources. Whether it is diamonds, gold or crude oil – they have triggered the greed for our planet’s resources, regardless of the consequences. We can expect major wars to be fought over natural resources. This greed leaves only losers and toxic wastelands in its wake— once the process of ruthless overexploitation has begun, only dead industrial deserts will remain. Nowhere left to live for people, animals and flora; everything will be radioactive; contaminated water sources will leave us without the basis for survival. We will have finally succeeded. Greed, growing slowly until it reaches a point of no return, is capable of creating conditions that will make Earth uninhabitable: with it we will exterminate ourselves and very likely most other life forms as well.
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The river taking away all greed symbols
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The river taking away all greed symbols |
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50199820199909 |
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9th arm:Is there a way out? A glance at the history of humankind suggests a solution, painful but feasible. But it requires the destruction of the current order. Great natural disasters and wars have destroyed or wiped out entire civilizations or forced them to migrate. In Europe, the consequences of the Second World War uprooted most people, stripping them of everything that was important to their social status. The devastating tsunami of 2004, which cost the lives of almost 250,000 people in Asia, succeeded in breaking up political fronts and entrenched power structures. Greed for beauty and fame, political power and the greed for raw materials were all washed away with the floods. Like a giant river ending in a waterfall that swallows up all of the abominations spawned by greed, then pulverizing them through the kinetic energy of the fall. Social differences are temporarily erased and a new beginning can come. Has anyone learned anything from this cycle? I doubt it...
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Dolphin school
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Dolphin school |
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Single Animal |
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57 x 18 x 3 |
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04147571830206-0210 |
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2020-05-09 |
| 6 happily playing dolphins in a big wave. One of them want to see the weather over water. Planks from an old fishing boat. The paint is fading out. It was tremendous work to free the dolphin raws from these iron bars that help the planks to stick together. Parts might be glued. If these dolphins could only live with the same freedom we want to have.. |
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Dolphin school
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Dolphin school |
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Single Animal |
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62 x 30 x 3 |
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04147623030209-0234 |
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2020-05-09 |
| A bigger dolphin school in unpolluted water, on the other side we can see what pollution means. Some of the original dolphins were replaced by other teak wood, as they could not be saved even by gluing. The iron corrosion had destroyed the wooden structure. Parts might be glued. On one side there is a acrylic shield to support the school in this position. Dolphins wished to live as easy in their environment as we do. |
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