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It's rather busy. The red and the blue parts are the wrong way around as well. 

Edited by Rab D Nesbitt

19 minutes ago, wonnabeeri said:

Looks like it’s been spotted in the wild. Very busy!

 

 

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Agree, but lots of indigenous artwork looks ‘busy’.  IMO, the underlying story that it tells is its most important feature.


Was always going to be a hard task to follow up on the 2021 indigenous jumper,

 

1 hour ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

It's rather busy. The red and the blue parts are the wrong way around as well. 

could be determined by who were playing during indigenous rounds?

and is that similar to/the same as what the girls wore in season just gone?

 

Art is... always subjective and always cultural.

And from what I know as a privileged white middle aged bloke... there will be a story that I can't connect with by merely looking at it...

...until it is put in print to me, in which case I then reflect on the paucity of ritual and connection to land that my ancestors that emigrated here 150 years ago passed on to me.

That's when the object that I am looking at makes sense, and transcends my socially constructed version of beautiful art.

 

Should have been a darker blue sky to avoid any potential similarities to the Doggies. Not a bad design, but not our best either. Personally i would have had either the eagle or boomerang. Not both. 


Have I missed the MFC letting us know the story of this one? Can't wait to read about it, looks interesting.

1 minute ago, Turner said:

could be determined by who were playing during indigenous rounds?

Fair point Turner. I've just looked and the Sir Doug Nicholls rounds are 10 & 11 which are both away games against sides that predominantly wear royal blue, West Coast and North Melbourne. I think I read somewhere that these guernseys get planned a long way ahead of time though and therefore probably before the fixture is released. 

All I can see is the gold AFL on it. And that makes it a masterpiece. In fact that makes it our best ever indigenous jumper.

I hope that's a velcro Hawk. 


1 hour ago, Engorged Onion said:

Art is... always subjective and always cultural.

And from what I know as a privileged white middle aged bloke... there will be a story that I can't connect with by merely looking at it...

...until it is put in print to me, in which case I then reflect on the paucity of ritual and connection to land that my ancestors that emigrated here 150 years ago passed on to me.

That's when the object that I am looking at makes sense, and transcends my socially constructed version of beautiful art.

 

My God that's a whole lot of psychobabble.

Self haters are embarrassing.

43 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Full frontal

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Terrible. Just awful compared to the beautiful efforts of past seasons. At least my lovely wife won't be asking me to buy this one as she has in the past. Save some coin.

2 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

It's rather busy. The red and the blue parts are the wrong way around as well. 

Blue sky, red earth. I get why they've swapped it around for the story telling, which I assume they will release an article on, and still easily identifiable as Melbourne. Not my favourite design but I like it nonetheless.

We've had some great Indigenous guernseys but i'm afraid this one is an eyesore

Myself, my wife (who is of Indigenous descent) and both my boys (also of Indigenous descent) love this year's jumper, last year's was awful.  Just our opinion.


3 hours ago, BDA said:

We've had some great Indigenous guernseys but i'm afraid this one is an eyesore

Yep, not a fan of the above. I loved this one (2016):

New Indigenous Guernsey - Melbourne Demons - Demonland

and Nev's 2020 design:

Melbourne Demons 2020 Mens Indigenous Guernsey

 

This is...busy.

Edited by Mel Bourne

Hopefully a long sleeve (for both the Anzac and Indigenous) will be ordered for Langdon or Hunt or those gents won't be happy.

Last year they didn't have one for either.


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