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"You know, that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water; three hundred sixteen men come out. The sharks took the rest. June the 29th, 1945." - Robert Shaw as Quint
One of the most horrifying scenes in Jaws has nothing to do with the film's great white villain. Quint and Hooper are having drinks, comparing scars, and laughing the whole time until Brody asks about a particular scar, and the mood suddenly sinks as Quint tells the horrific tale of the USS Indianapolis, a battleship in WWII that was sunk by a Japanese torpedo; the men who weren't killed from the blast abandoned ship and found themselves to be caught in the midst of a shark feeding frenzy ... and this really happened. This is a factual historical story inserted into a completely fictional movie. Robert Shaw is brilliant as the grizzled war veteran, and this monologue is a stunning example of how all the gore and jump-scares in the world can't compare to the real-life horrors of war.
For this artwork I used a mosaic abstract/geometric style I first created for my Laurel & Hardy Collection, and have taken it to another level in my Jaws Collection, moving from solid silhouettes to add more detail with the two-tone stencil-style I often use, fused with a backdrop of multi-colored squares to make a cool effect of looking pixelated at first glance, but when you have a closer look, you realize all of the hand-drawn details are there. This is a technique I've not seen done before, and I will do my best to continue to take my art to new levels and try to innovate in some small way, a difficult task, as more and more artwork is created every day by millions of talented artists. All I can do is keep trying to create cool new visuals and hope people dig it!
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