THUNDERCATS TAPESTRY….HOOOOH!


What’s better than a classic 80’s cartoon? How about an 11’x6′ oil tapestry of Thundercats? Yea…that’s what we thought.

Robert Burden, best known to internet geeks as the visionary man-child and revisionist, has made a colossal piece titled “Soldiers of Thundera”. It took about 1000 hours to complete and it’s documented through all of its stages in this great time-lapse footage.

Here’s a brief statement by the artist from his site:

My current paintings are large-scale portraits of the small action figures that I played with as a boy. I remember these figures as being magnificent. They represented power, beauty, good and evil, and they captured every aspect of my imagination. As a young adult, these toys are wonderfully nostalgic, but they’re no longer amazing to me. The ineffability of what can turn a cheap yet coveted piece of plastic into an almost talismanic object was the original inspiration for this work. I am also motivated by the amorphous line that is drawn between imagination and reality, childhood wonder and adult practicality. Though sheltered and naive, there was a freedom in my childhood. It was free from the politics of race and religion. It was free from the burdens of history. It was free from rhetoric and paranoia, shame and regret, cynicism and despair. There is nothing profound about commenting on the minor tragedy of losing one’s innocence, or the struggle to maintain one’s idealism. I just want to renew my faded sense of awe.