Greetings, dear Steemians
It's been a while since I last posted a drawing or any artwork, but I'm going to give it a try to this contest that will hopefully motivate me to retake drawing with more discipline. I hope you enjoy the work.

I used ball pens (blue and red). So far, the prompts have motivated drawing that have a rather dark meaning; there is some local political implications in some of them. However, I hope you can appreciate them beyond one intended meaning.

Day 1

Prompt: Ring

After The Lord of the Ring this word has a very conflicting meaning for me.

I associate rings with enclosed spaces, cycles, routines, and traps.

Some rings, like the "security rings" around corrupt politicians and celebrities, seem to be as problematic as the rings around organized crime. Once you're in, there is no easy way out.

Thus, this image of a very painful ring to wear came to my mind.

Day 2

Prompt: Mindless

This word made me think about brainlessness or emptyheadedness, and those are terms I associate with ideological fanaticism.

Whether it comes from left, center, or right, I think that any blind affiliation to an ideology seriously hinders people's ability to see reality in its balanced proportion and speak their minds.

Mindlessness destroyed my country, it is making change more difficult than it should, and it is menancingly expanding.

Day 3

Prompt: Bait

Again, I was hooked with the political implications of each word, and this was was just too obvious.

In Venezuela, populist policies have not only made impossible for people to come out of poverty, it has multiplied the poor. Cheap food supplies have been used as bait for political manipulation.

Thanks for your visit

Visítanos en: www.equipocardumen.com.ve