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The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️ (fedia.io)

submitted 1 week ago by lety@doesstuff.social to c/photography@fedia.io

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The Creature met an ancestor! 🦣 🦴 🏛️

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[–] lety@doesstuff.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@janisf@mstdn.social I've been trying to make sense of this joke for days, please explain it to me :google_emoji_kitchen_blob_and_loudly_crying_face_mashup:

[–] janisf@mstdn.social 1 points 1 week ago

@lety@doesstuff.social Her feet are turned toward the camera/viewer, making the image not about the mastodons, or her, but about the gaze, about who exists in this moment for whom.

This one's short, and very enlightening, and old standby in college art classes: https://archive.org/details/WaysOfSeeingByJohnBerger

But lord knows you don't need to read a whole book to try to understand a snarky comment... that really should have been somehow directed at the Asian girl ads I've been getting on YouTube lately.