One of the things I really love about the Jedi is that there is art woven into their home all over the place.
For example:
- There’s that incredible mural on the Archives’ ceiling!
- There are literally busts of the Jedi Masters who’ve left the Order!
- Their great hallway isn’t plain or undecorated, that place is a work of art just look at the arrangement of arches and columns, the decoration on them!
- The patterns that are shown on the walls of their home or on their floors!
- We see Barriss and Yoda both have symbols on their doors and walls that seem to be unique to them! We know Barriss’ is also displayed on the other side of the door, for everyone to see!
- Floors all over the place have unique, special designs that are related to the circles-and-lines aesthetic the Jedi have going on that echoes the Force!
- The pylons outside the Jedi Temple have designs carved into them!
- We see them using the Force to sculpt in Jedi Temple Challenge!
- We see the mural of the Father, Daughter, and Son on the Jedi Temple wall!
We don’t know whose room this is, but another Jedi has art displayed on their door, across from Anakin’s room, for everyone to see, which also seems to be unique to them:
Their hallways are decorated with stuff all over the place, too:
Further we see art in their statues in the Jedi Temple as well:
They have statues in the place that’s most sacred to them:
You can see there are carvings and decor all over the place:
Or in the comics, when the Grand Inquisitor and Jocasta both go to the Temple:
Jocasta Nu returns to the Temple to get the list of Force-sensitive childrens’ names and to destroy her beloved Jedi Archives because she cannot let them fall into the Empire’s hands, along the way we see some of these gorgeous, incredible statues that the Jedi display in their hallways.
Looking around at the wreckage that the Empire has made of her home, she’s sorrowful and pained as she says, “By the light… what have they done? It was… it was so beautiful here.”
Their home wasn’t just functional, it was beautiful to them and the Jedi loved it very much, you can see the aching loss on her face.
There’s an interesting set of pages in Dark Lord of the Sith, as Jocasta is going to the Temple and Vader is overseeing the wreckage of a fighter that he’s trying to piece together, they’re literally back to back/side to side pages in the issue, as well as these storylines are meant to be paralleled/contrasted and to connect to each other.
Look at the composition of them:
The perspectives are amazingly similar! On one side you have the Jedi Archives, you have color and warmth and decoration, you have vibrancy and beauty. That is someone’s home. On the other side, you have blues and grays, you have the impersonal metal of the Empire.
The contrast between the two really highlights that one meant something to the people, the other was meant to be as impersonal as possible.
Plus, check out the vault that she goes into:
That droid is totally decorated up and there doesn’t seem to be a reason for it other than just that it looks nice, that it fits their artistic aesthetic.
Their funerals are full of art details as well:
The style of the room, the blankets that have a more decorated, artistic version of the Jedi Order symbol, even just the patterns on the floor. That stuff is everywhere in the Temple.
Even in something as simply drawn as the Forces of Destiny shorts, they make sure to show the ink wash painting style art is in their dojo:
We also know they have Force-sculpting classes:
In Jedi Temple Challenge we also see the Jedi Master using the Force to make a sculpture as a birthday gift for the Jedi Temple librarian on their birthday.
We know from Choose Your Destiny: An Obi-Wan & Anakin Adventure that Jedi Council members were involved in the theater, which presumably was part of the Jedi Temple curriculum (or else their members joined local theater groups, which then shows that the Jedi supported such things, especially because these were from Council members):
ANYWAY SO LUCASFILM GIVE ME MORE ABOUT JEDI ARTISTS, THEIR STUFF IS GORGEOUS AND I WANT MORE OF IT.
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ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS
i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.
there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.
doing nothing is good for my soul.
i am not defined by what i produce.
my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.
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Do high school kids these days just have trans classmates now. Like I keep seeing zoomer posts casually referring to it. Fucking wild if true.
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who keeps giving her these things
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This was originally going to be a lot longer, but I ran out of steam! I have some thoughts to continue it later if I feel up to it!
-Yamino
P.S. Shoutout to my wife @summerlightning for helping me bounce off ideas and editing the text!
Edit: This comic has sequels!
(Part 2)
(Part 3)
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imagine watching Star Wars in theaters in 1977 and pointing at Darth Vader boarding a ship with Stormtroopers and then choking some guy, and exclaiming THAT'S CLEARLY JESUS CHRIST, THAT'S WHY I'M INTO THIS
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twilight of the republic
“This story happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. It is already over. Nothing can be done to change it.”
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