So here's what this contest is about according to its initiators jitter magazine:
Beasts! What would man be without the creature? Whether admiration or contempt, emotion or horror, the ambivalent relationship between man and creature has been the source of countless stories of all cultures. Seeing himself as creation's crowning glory, man keeps his distance to nature only to use it as screen for all kinds of desires and fears. Over and over again this has been the reason for movies; whether they aim for a romantic view of a primordial lost world, used at the same time as a metaphor for the innocent of childhood or they aim for the darkest nightmares of an unnameable evil hidden in any unknown terrain -- even in our own basement. The fascination of the creature is a never ending source.
Now let me try to put in words what I had in mind when creating this illustration.
Clearly the beast in this picture is Godzilla. Godzilla is a creature whose size and powers are explained to be connected to atomic radiation. At least in the beginning of the Godzilla series the creature is described as "hating mankind".
One could interprete these elements as an attempt to deal with the terrors and fears the atomic age confronted humans with. By transforming it into something less scary since obviously fictional and more story-like, something you could turn off on TV or walk out of in a theatre, when the story is over. The threat turns into something else, something that allows the viewer to deal with it without dealing with it, if that makes any sense at all.
Guess thats what I tried to convey with the 3D-glasses:
There's the real terror going on (people ARE scared and terrified and overwhelmed with coping with reality), yet they willingly pay very close attention to a fictional story based on what's terrifying them. This is indeed a very fascinating phenomena.
There's obviously a reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the picture
(The Enola Gray throwing "Little Boy" bombs, "Fat man" bombs at the left) and thereby a reference to the very real horror and desperation Japan had to deal with.
Hope I described my thoughts and intentions in a rather understandable way. Thanks for paying attention.
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