A Bastard with Traditions

I recently saw Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible, a movie that Stalin very much liked, and there are some extremely jingoistic passages in it that the present Bastard in Charge just must have been inspired by. With Ivan Groznyj started the Russian expansion that has never really ceased -- nor the terror against its own people. With Putin's recent war against Ukraine in mind, this merry trio was sketched.

One sad thing about this war -- among so many others -- is how it shadows other concerns. We still have global warming going on. Title: "We're melting!"

And in Sweden we still have a state owned logging company that wreaks havoc inside our last natural forests: This little piece I call Sawrosaurus [Sågosaurus Borealis].

-- The whole work: I usually don't think horisontally so once upon a time I made this blog better fit for vertical imagery and it's a little bit late to change that now. So it goes. On the left you find money growing on trees, a lifeless monoculture of the kind that the saw monster likes. To the right there's a wasteland inspired by Paul Nash's WWI panorama "We Are Making A New World".