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Published: 2005-05-01 04:26:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1309; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 11
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Description Um ok... this was just a little doodle collage I put together as a narrative of World War I. Most of the things drawn are explicative but there are a couple things that are kinda vague. But I'll list the symbols for the sake of doing it.

1) Curtain - Schlieffen Plan and the sweeping motion it was meant to make across France.
2) Car and Cross-Hair Target - assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and pregnant wife Sophie.
3) Scarred Girl - mental and physical repercussions of the war such as "shell shock" and limb amputation.
4) Plane - reference to the first use of planes as an offensive resource during the First World War.
5) Explosion Cloud - first uses of chemical warfare with sarin and mustard gas.
6) Barbed-Wire Fence - 'No Man's Land.'
7) Trenches - trench warfare.
8) Upturned German Helmet - the war grew out from the Triple Alliance's aggression.
9) Lilies - honors the soldiers killed.
10) Chains - the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, alliances which pulled many nations into the war.

A little too much information there, but can be nice to know.

Color tweaking and texturing in a photo editing program.
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Comments: 4

16th-of-a-twigg [2011-01-17 00:32:24 +0000 UTC]

very beautiful and heart touching, thanks also for explaining the symbols, brings a lot more thought into this "little doodle collage"

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indigosound [2009-10-18 06:46:37 +0000 UTC]

beautiful. and thanks for explaining the symbols

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RainingKira [2007-12-02 00:41:54 +0000 UTC]

exmotional D,=

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Tlacatecatle [2006-09-27 02:12:36 +0000 UTC]

fricken sweet.

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