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Description
The diptych.

edit: Thanks to everybody who commented on this. I thought that since so many people mentioned it that I should explain some of the meaning behind this painting. I kept things diliberately obscure before so people could come to thier own conclusions.

The core of this painting lies in the arrows, they are meant to symbolize the linear nature of politics these days. It's really about all you ever hear when people talk about politics is left this and right that, all people seem to care about is whether something is conservative or liberal, all other factors seem inconsequential. Sometimes you hear about moderates but for the most part people are incredibly polarized and can not agree on anything, everyone lies on the ends of one horizontal axis. The tiny drawings on the top of the X-axis painting are diagrams of the 1st-3rd dimensions as well as theoretical diagrams of possible higher dimensions. These are meant to allude to the fact that our political model is completely one dimensional and that if people can concieve of dimensions in space-time above the third can't we expect more than one dimension in politics? Can't we add a Y-axis to the political world? What about a Z-axis? Is there anyway to avoid lines completely and just approach everything in a utilitarian way devoid of polarized platforms?

The "bite marks" on the painting are supposed to be reminiscent of thought bubbles from comics; everything inside of the paintings is purely intellectual action, outside of the thought bubbles/paintings lies the real world which is invisible becuase the paintings are not concerned with the real world.

The red ribbon and the blue legs are merely meant to be entertaining distractions. They are parts of characters I have from stories, roleplaying games etc. and they are there because sometimes it is just so much easier to daydream about the adventures of fashionable heroes.

Huge thanks to anyone that has had an interest in this painting and I hope the comments are helpful.

Description
The diptych.

edit: Thanks to everybody who commented on this. I thought that since so many people mentioned it that I should explain some of the meaning behind this painting. I kept things diliberately obscure before so people could come to thier own conclusions.

The core of this painting lies in the arrows, they are meant to symbolize the linear nature of politics these days. It's really about all you ever hear when people talk about politics is left this and right that, all people seem to care about is whether something is conservative or liberal, all other factors seem inconsequential. Sometimes you hear about moderates but for the most part people are incredibly polarized and can not agree on anything, everyone lies on the ends of one horizontal axis. The tiny drawings on the top of the X-axis painting are diagrams of the 1st-3rd dimensions as well as theoretical diagrams of possible higher dimensions. These are meant to allude to the fact that our political model is completely one dimensional and that if people can concieve of dimensions in space-time above the third can't we expect more than one dimension in politics? Can't we add a Y-axis to the political world? What about a Z-axis? Is there anyway to avoid lines completely and just approach everything in a utilitarian way devoid of polarized platforms?

The "bite marks" on the painting are supposed to be reminiscent of thought bubbles from comics; everything inside of the paintings is purely intellectual action, outside of the thought bubbles/paintings lies the real world which is invisible becuase the paintings are not concerned with the real world.

The red ribbon and the blue legs are merely meant to be entertaining distractions. They are parts of characters I have from stories, roleplaying games etc. and they are there because sometimes it is just so much easier to daydream about the adventures of fashionable heroes.

Huge thanks to anyone that has had an interest in this painting and I hope the comments are helpful.