In Dan Verkys' "Goddess of War" we have a depiction of a beautiful women as the focal piece. In each hand is a skull facing inward and all around are demon beasts connection with wires. The impression is of the femmine enclosed in a mechanized world of death. She is the center, and through her focal point she is the life of the painting. Encompasing her is a death machine, singifing that she as a the feminine life giving force is the epicenter of a systematic and structured death machine.
In Giger's painting we have almost exatly the same painting. A femmine form is the focal life giving moment and all surounding is a machanized horror scene. What distinguishes this is the cross centered in the painting, immediatly comes to mind is Jesus, the hanged man of sacrifice, except now feminine and faceless. The mechanized death machine in the background has the feeling of both a cathedral and a urban jungle scene.
Finally in Kuski's paining we have a more complex three deminsinoal representation, variant on the theme. A skeletal figure encompssing the entire center of the piece with a headress symbolizing honor and respect.
What unites these three peices of art is how they represent a capitalist world system. For in a capitlaistic world system there is an appeal to the lives of citizen enjoying the luxary of the 'first world' whose existence is built on the backs of third world citizens.
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