Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year! (Velvet Sleestak Sunday)

From the Velvet Fog to a velvet Sleestak.

Sleestak art branches out in strange directions. Below is a painting I found of the recently deceased North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il with a Sleestak next to him. This velvet painting was apparently at a New York City art gallery at one point. It's not often that you find Sleestak art to go with current events, but here it is. It is a diptych rendered on black velvet. Yes, an art form usually reserved for Elvis Presley.
Sleestak with Kim Jong Il
North Korea postcard
To the right is a postcard, probably from the Soviet bloc heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, of members of the Worker and Peasants Association in North Korea. Like Kim above, they are smiling, but from all I know of North Korean history, these people likely didn't have much ti smile about.

The Sleestak below is sad to see the old year go. Have a Happy New Year!

And yes, there is an entry over at Gothridge Manor.
Crying Sleestak Holding Chaka

3 comments:

silly rabbit said...

lol!!! I never pictured the late dictator in a velvet painting with a sleestack! Too funny!

Happy New Year dmarks! I wish a wonderful and blessed year to you and yours. Big grins!

Tim Shorts said...

The sleestak are everywhere influencing culture and art as we know it. But even I have never seen a sleestak cry. That is a find.

dmarks said...

Thanks for your comments, Tim. The second image was originally entitled "Land of the Lonely". Poor Sleestak... big eyes must mean big tears.