In the course of a recent apartment move, I realized that I had a large project kicking around that I never got around to sharing when I finished it (probably because it’s not technically finished! 😉
Around the same time I was painting my ‘Liberty For All!’ poster, I decided I wanted to diversify my propaganda game. Browsing through the Star Wars: Propaganda art book, there weren’t many Rebel examples that either spoke to me or would be achievable at my painting skill-level at the time. However, I liked this particular piece’s simple composition, and welcomed the challenge of painting all the little greeblies that make the ISD-II such a compelling spacecraft design.
While I definitely don’t agree with its intended message, I felt I could make it serve my purposes, albeit with a little rattle-can modification along these lines:
Splitting my time between this and my Liberty! poster, and over the course of (I think) three SW audiobooks, I wound up with this (21 x 27 inches):
I’m very pleased with the final product, but I’ve come to a terrible dilemma: after spending so much time and effort painting all those hull details, I can’t bring myself to spray-paint over them! Which means that I currently have a piece of Space-Nazi propaganda collecting dust in my apartment. The whole point of this project was to counter the fascist vibe, which would be easy to do if I didn’t paint it myself – if it was just a poster, it’d be no problem to deface! I suppose I could sell it to some gung-ho 501st buckethead, but those guys always weird me out just a little bit (more on that later, maybe).
Perhaps I could still spray out the words, but instead add some attacking Rebel ships, and a few explosions showing victory over the ImpStars? Hmm. It’s a quandary for sure…any suggestions? Leave a comment and let me know!
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That would be quite the artistic graffiti artist to so thoughtfully subvert propaganda to alter the piece rather than just defacing it. It also suggests the subversive had a good amount of time to pull off the job. Your original idea seems more plausible, but I ask myself, “How would Sabine do it?”
Also interested in your thoughts on the 501st.
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