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Chamberlain-Complex β€” The great outdoors

Published: 2013-03-13 03:40:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 1828; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 22
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Description Nothing nasty, nothing cruel, just our heroine, July Moon, in happier times looking cute out among the nature.

NOTE: In my little corner of the country (which is actually within a city) I see more and more younger women wearing tight capri length pants either while exercising/jogging or in the aisles of the grocery store-- as though they have just left or are going directly to a fitness session. Honestly, most of them look pretty darn good, and certainly merit wearing these.
I've also noticed recently that many even younger women are wearing a certain style of bulky fleece boots (I'm not sure what these are called) over tight leggings or jeans. Last week, in Taco Bell, I spotted a girl that resembled Selena Gomez sitting with her lanky boyfriend, both of them engrossed by a smart phone. The girl was wearing capri leggings with those fleece boots. No, I'm not some old lecher that leers at teen girls at Taco Bell. I was just struck that this was a rather cute look, and later sat down to sketch it out.
I mention this because there may be those that look at my art and wonder why I draw what I do. I can't fully explain it myself. I am reminded of something I heard in an interview with Spanish actor Javier Bardem. He explained that when he speaks and hears english it's as though the words go through a little office in his mind to be processed. My ideas follow a similar path. At the mall I might see a some article of clothing on a mannequin or a real live person. The image travels to and through my own little office in the mind dedicated to that thing and later on shows up here as one of my rough pictures.
So there you have it, the creative process explained.
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Comments: 6

CheeseburgerTom [2014-03-29 17:22:43 +0000 UTC]

Why was slavery relegalized, and why was July enslaved?

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Chamberlain-Complex In reply to CheeseburgerTom [2014-03-29 18:18:28 +0000 UTC]

In July's time and place, slavery hasn't been re-legalized so much as re-interpreted. Forced labor as a punishment for those duly convicted of a crime is allowed under the 13th Amendment. The people in charge decided that putting a section of the female population to work as slaves seemed like a great economic plan. July was caught up in a mass arrest of university co-eds and sentenced to twenty years as a "proprietary laborer", a slave owned and used by a private enterprise. Despite having asthma, she was found to be fit for a wide variety of work assignments.

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CheeseburgerTom In reply to Chamberlain-Complex [2014-03-30 01:35:16 +0000 UTC]

Wow! Β It sounds like she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time when the authorities decided to screw over some women and didn't actually commit any crime. Β Very sad.

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Chamberlain-Complex In reply to CheeseburgerTom [2014-03-30 06:06:35 +0000 UTC]

True enough, she committed no crime-- at least nothing that's currently illegal. As far as the wrong place at the wrong time, well I guess it was her bad luck to be of age in the wrong sector of North America, during the wrong decades.

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johntofte [2013-03-13 13:06:35 +0000 UTC]

July enjoyed her walks in the mountains - The cool freash air was good for her asthma.
But that is all in the past. The Polk compagny has fortunately since made her useful.
Now in the hot and dusty gravel pit at Polks, and the work places, she is leased out to, the whip must compensate for her asthma, so her owners will not lose money, and everybody can be happy.

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Chamberlain-Complex In reply to johntofte [2013-03-14 03:36:01 +0000 UTC]

Everybody's happy now, except poor July. She misses those pleasant days of freedom when she could wear what she wanted, go where she wanted, do what she wanted. Memories can sustain you-- almost as much as bread and soup.

July's story will evolve and continue...

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