Views from the Outside

  I've been trying to develop some artistic talent, and thus have been playing around with various apps on my computer and iPad each of which promise to produce art that is beyond what my talent and taste would normally produce.  But one of the low-effort things I came up with is the photo in this post.  I considered it a variation on Shelley's Ozymandias .  More specifically, an intermediate step along the way to Ozymandias.  While in Shelley's poem, the great king's worldly triumph is entirely erased by time except for his bold pronouncements of greatness.  In the modern parlance, he made claims of grandeur "that didn't age well."  In my drawing, I tried to express the impulsive zeal that accompanies worldly success: perhaps a politician defeats a corrupt incumbent ushering in a new era of hope or satisfying a yearning or change.  Or perhaps a development project is defeated due to community activism.  Regardless "the good guys" won.  However,