ABOUT
Original Clones is an art page on Instagram that focuses to bring attention to the commonalities of the past and the present. The amalgamation of these is presented in the form of a storytelling photoshoot, with art, history, and fashion as the visual tools.
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Creative direction | Photography | Editing
WALT WHITMAN X MEDIOCRITY
Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with
the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, for
who more foolish than I, and who more faithless...
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Walt Whitman talks about the inclination towards
uniformity and the goals and ambitions in life. He talks
of the foolish and faithless men and considers himself
no better for not living up to his own notions of how
he should be. if our target is truly ours only then
would we experience the joy of achieving it.
That we need to understand ourselves beyond the
obscurities of the way of life. That we are here, we
have an identity and we must play our part. That
mediocre is not how we are, and mediocrity
should not be the way of life.
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It rises not from the worry of the future, but the inability to manipulate it. Many necessities led to many inventions, and many wars created the need to discover, to invent, to code the simple, to decode the coded.
Many war artists were commissioned to capture the warring battles. War fed to human tenacity which led to the enhanced lives lived today, inevitably. So, to say, progress is one side of the coin called war? Perhaps not. Because a coin has two sides, and if one side is darker than the light of the other, that coin is crooked. If the casualties of war are made into a chain, that chain can wind around the equatorial circumference of the earth more than 3000 times. That is an approximation of a calculated assumption. Thankfully the true facts haven’t been discovered yet. Presenting to you the vacuous, hollow and terrifying; Archives of war.
THE ARCHIVES OF WAR
"Greed/Need /Power/Superpower"
JOSEPH KOSUTH x RENE MAGRITTE
“Everything we see hides another thing; we always
want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
-Magritte
You can never truly know a person, a pet or a plant. The world is thronged with mysteries of the most ordinary and unsettling kind.
It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing, it is unknowable. You know what they allow you to know, but not the
thought they thought before the thought that you know, now.
And that is the obvious truth of reality.
Bringing to you an artist who played with his mysteries
and one who toyed with the literal obvious.
