Arbeit Macht Frei
This piece is about Arbeit Macht Frei…It was posted at the concentration camps gates…It means “Work Brings Freedom” This was a lie and misconception at the camps to get the prisoners to work hard believing or praying they would be released. Instead they were worked to death. The building and clouds are cold b/w to simulate the sick greed of the nazis as a industrial society. And the tool angels represent the people who where worked to death. The text I made metal and rusted to represent time and age as a reminder to never let this happen again.
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skin88
It always happens, prior to the nazis, the romans and egyptians did the same and even now with bush and his ilegal imprisonment of POWs. Maybe instead of SUGGETING that the nazis where the only “bad” regime there is, look to all the others and what is going on. Create something that is not only focused on the Nazi regime. So sick of ppl like you and others that think only that time in the history of the world was the worst time. Do some reseach and look at what the jews have done to others over time and why they are persercuted so much.
Nice represtation of the tools though, I really like the way you did the title, nice work.
mhkantor
hi chris,
looks like you rubbed an anti-semite the wrong way.
i like your recent works.
bites
Ahhh freedom, freedom of speech?
Great work Chris this is a well planned out piece of art,
keep up the good work!
Simon Mears
hmm Mr. O’Brien..you’re trying very hard not to expose yourself as a nazi sympathiser by going so far as to suggest that the nazi regime was one of a number of “bad” regimes but then you add that the persecution of the Jews is in some way justified by all regimes over time.
I’m sick of racist hypocrites such as you emerging from your underground world of fear and hate from time to time to make my life that much worse, I’m checking through my background of favourites etc.. as of right now i’m imposing my cultural boycott on everything you have here.. as your comments have invalidated everything about them that is good. Really, how can you compare Guantanamo Bay, and all it represents, to the Nazi regime. Oh and leave the Nazi regime alone? well the Nazis are clearly still with us, as your mail clearly shows,, the Romans and Egyptians were a little while ago.. and hardly relevant to today’s politics..which is why, i suspect, this piece of artwork is so resonant. Your reply justifies its existence.
skin88 replied
Freedom of speach dies with people like you every time, no matter. I am proud of who I am, where i come from and what has happened. Get over it. You seem to forget to that i did comment on the image regardless of what the work was for, but alas, people like you and other just over look those things. People of all races have the right to say and believe in what ever they choose, people like you stop that to create a police state. Good day
Sande Elkins
Wow, Chris this is so powerful! Your talent, style and strong voice never cease to amaze me and leave me totally awe struck and humbled…. I just read the first comment…what rock have they been living under? Stick to your guns and keep producing such moving work as this that makes a statement with such incredible artistry.
Simon Mears
freedom of speech carries responsibility and you have none it seems – it also offers me the right to attack you wherever you may go and whatever you may say to defend your spite. Whether by word, brick or a gun people like you should and will be challenged – the Nazi ‘ethos’ was that of the police state.. it couldn’t survive without the element of state intimidation – it needed to contain and eliminate the voices of moderate people. As for supporting a police state, i’ve worked my last 7 years in challenging police authority and defending criminal suspects. Ours in not a perfect system by a long way but i shan’t begin to compare it to that of a police state but we do have a responsibility to watch for the changes.
You can’t actually believe “people of all races have the right to say and believe in whatever they choose” – do you personally offer this right to the Jewish family living close you you that want to attend their Synagogue in peace and dignity.. or do you merely tolerate it until you can find some bullies to do something about it. This right exists only if practised with responsibility and obligation – and when abused it becomes a hate crime Mr O’Brien. Freedom of Speech my arse,
Tallulah
Powerful and provocative image Chris….well done.
WOLF
you stared a fire with this one …..well done
wolf
Damien Taylor
Chris, after viewing your image and reading your comments about it I find it to be not only a strong piece of work but again another great work of art. My Father fought in WWII and on top of fighting through North Africa and Italy, was involved in the liberation of Jews from a concentration camp. People like Ian O’Brien, whilst entitled to their opinions should really think a little before committing themselves to putting their views down in B & W. I believe in freedom of speech and it is wonderful that we can all add our comments here because if it wasn’t for the bravery of men like my Father and tens of millions of his generation freedom of speech would have died over sixty years ago. We must never forget what happened due to the barbarity of the evil Nazis and works of art like this help keep that memory alive. Well done Chris.
Jaybe
Chris, Well done on a fabulous, and IMPORTANT piece. Perhaps Mr O’Brien would care to comment on a piece of my work entitled Oradour….
Work like this keeps history alive – we should never be in a position where we forget the atrocities of years passed. Mr O’Brien appears to have forgotten that we didn’t have ‘mass media’ throughout WW2 as we do today. Many images, histories and accounts have been lost or destroyed, not stored on mass digital hard drives….
KEITH R. WILL...
a great reminder of the past