the restless men, it seems the whole society is rolling away - a beautiful idea!

as always in your gallery, I learn a lot from reading Cathy (i learn from your other commenters too, but somehow Cathy manages to see things I'd want to see, and she opens up doors for me everytime). I hadn't thought about the whole thing as a single organism, it really does feel like one, but then male ego does move like a single organism, eating up tons in its path throughout history. You show, once again, your knowledge of many historical symbols, and you sprinkle them into your works with assuredness & ease. You have what I assume are gendarmes of some sort, though one of them appears to be holding a letter (a mail carrier perhaps, carrier of a message?); but as gendarmes were originally meant for assault, I assume there's some threat from them, for all their official appearance. And one very angry looking fighter---the one with the reddened yelling face. And a nazi, or maybe a WWOne fighter, judging from the rim on the helmet; from a war about as damning of male ego as any war in history (having almost no overriding reason or consequence other than conquest & horrifying loss of life over tiny plots of land). And what looks like men dancing in black-face, or perhaps real Black Americans forced to dance to be accepted. And someone banging with a hammer, which looks very much like a Soviet hammer (or Communist Chinese...and we're not sure if he's tilling the soil or killing. And then paper-cutout men with the eyes of the angry boxer. And patterns on the torsos that suggest tribal designs all over the world, perhaps war designs. It all moves in an inexorable mass, and seems propelled to somewhere beyond the frame, like war itself; and it's powerful, chaotic and provocative. For the small number of symbols, it feels quite universal. Another thought provoking & masterful piece from you, Mandi. (And btw, I'm going back in your gallery & choosing here & there---I don't mean to imply that your other pieces aren't as good...I'm just moving through your gallery these days. I hope to be back for more!)

Interesting idea, love all the poses, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!